Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1461-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1461-2014
Research article
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06 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 06 Jun 2014

Characterising the relationship between weather extremes in Europe and synoptic circulation features

S. Pfahl

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