The use and misuse of conditional symmetric instability

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Monthly Weather Review

• Publication date

  1999-12-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Geography, Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2709:TUAMOC>2.0.CO;2
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