Diffusive Decay of Tropopause Folds and the Related Cross-Tropopause Mass Flux
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Weather Review
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0027-0644,1520-0493
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2958:ddotfa>2.0.co;2