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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-589-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-589-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Research article
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20 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2017

The “shallow-waterness” of the wave climate in European coastal regions

Kai Håkon Christensen, Ana Carrasco, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, and Øyvind Breivik

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