Propagation and decay of forced and free baroclinic Rossby waves in off-equatorial oceans

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2405-2417

  Qiu, Bo ^a   Miao, Weifeng ^a   Müller, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 0001649789     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<2405:PADOFA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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