Maintenance of the Midtropospheric North African Summer Circulation: Saharan High and African Easterly Jet

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Climate

• Publication date

  2005-08-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/JCLI3446.1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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