Articles | Volume 7, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1841-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1841-2014
Model description paper
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29 Aug 2014
Model description paper |  | 29 Aug 2014

CycloTRACK (v1.0) – tracking winter extratropical cyclones based on relative vorticity: sensitivity to data filtering and other relevant parameters

E. Flaounas, V. Kotroni, K. Lagouvardos, and I. Flaounas

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