Atmospheric dynamics govern northern hemisphere wintertime climate variations forced by changes in earth’s orbit
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Alex Hall Dep’t of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California—Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Amy Clement Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149 David W. J. Thompson Dep’t of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Anthony Broccoli Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Charles Jackson Institute for Geophysics, The John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78759-8500.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004