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An Example of Climate-relevant Processes Unresolved by Present-day General Circulation Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Martin Beniston  and
J. Pérez-Sanchez
Martin Beniston
Affiliation:
Swiss National Climate Programme (ProClim), Bärenplatz 2, 3001 Bern and Institute of Geography, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
J. Pérez-Sanchez
Affiliation:
ETS Ingenieros Industrials, Universidad de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Summer 1992 , pp. 165 - 169
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1992

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