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Recent Trends in United States Precipitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Robert C. Balling
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Climatology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA.

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1991

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