Three-dimensional instability of nonlinear viscous symmetric circulations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3148-3158

  Gu, Wei ^a,b   Xu, Qin ^c   Wu, Rongsheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOUS FLOW;

NONLINEAR VISCOUS SYMMETRIC CIRCULATIONS; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INSTABILITY; MODEL;

EID: 0011439693     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3148:TDIONV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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