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Surface albedo and the Sahel drought

✍ Scribed by Courel, M. F.; Kandel, R. S.; Rasool, S. I.

Book ID: 109734429
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Weight: 538 KB
Volume: 307
Category: Article
ISSN: 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/307528a0

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