Steady response to tropical heating in wavy linear and nonlinear baroclinic models

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3565-3582

  Ting, Mingfang ^a   Yu, Linhai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

GEOGRAPHY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

BAROCLINIC ATMOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0001598084     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3565:SRTTHI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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