Mediterranean warm-core cyclones in a warmer world

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 1053-1066

  Walsh, Kevin ^a   Giorgi, Filippo ^b   Coppola, Erika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

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EID: 84894936774     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1723-y     Document Type: Article

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