Diagnosing Moisture Sources for Flash Floods in the United States. Part I: Kinematic Trajectories
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hydrometeorology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1525-755X,1525-7541
DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-18-0119.1