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Large-scale Tropical Atlantic surface circulation patterns associated with Subsaharan weather anomalies

P. J. LambDepartment of Meteorology, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin53706, USA
Pages 240-251 | Received 22 Dec 1976, Published online: 15 Dec 2016

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