Four consecutive snow-rich winters in Southern Finland: 2009/2010-2012/2013

Weather

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-8

  Lehtonen, Ilari ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW; WEATHER; WINTER;

FINLAND;

EID: 84920449155     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wea.2360     Document Type: Review

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