Steady two-layer vortices on the beta-plane

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 67-86

  Pakyari, Alireza ^a   Nycander, J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREAMLINES(FLOW); VORTICES; WAVES;

FLOW MODELLING; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC TWO-LAYER EQUATIONS; VORTICES;

EID: 0030425805     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0265(96)00475-7     Document Type: Article

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