Destruction of the inertial recirculation by the annual wind migration

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 242-256

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC MODEL STUDY; CIRCULATION MODELLING; INERTIAL RECIRCULATION; RECIRCULATION CELL; WIND FORCING; WIND MIGRATION;

EID: 0029730420     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<0242:DOTIRB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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