Height tendency diagnostics using a generalized omega equation, the vorticity equation, and a nonlinear balance equation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1577-1597

  Räisänen, Jouni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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EID: 0001491784     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1577:HTDUAG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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