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Dynamic Meteorology

Contrasting meridional structures of stratospheric and tropospheric planetary wave variability in the Northern Hemisphere

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Article: 25303 | Received 26 Jun 2014, Accepted 05 Nov 2014, Published online: 28 Nov 2014

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