Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe (eBook)

The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative: An Introduction; P. Ya. Groisman and G. Gutman.- Observation Issues in the Non-boreal Eastern Eu-
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