Interaction of cold-air blocking and upper-level potential vorticity anomalies during lee cyclogenesis
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عنوان ژورنال: Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1600-0870
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v47i5.11550