The Large-Scale Part of Tropical Mesoscale Convective System Circulations
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0026-1165,2186-9057
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.76.1_29