Articles | Volume 11, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-3937-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-3937-2011
Research article
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28 Apr 2011
Research article |  | 28 Apr 2011

On the structural changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation after 2000

H. Bönisch, A. Engel, Th. Birner, P. Hoor, D. W. Tarasick, and E. A. Ray

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