Hurricanes and Climate: The U.S. CLIVAR Working Group on Hurricanes
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0003-0007,1520-0477
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-13-00242.1