Collision interactions of envelope rossby solitons in a barotropic atmosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1604-1616

  Tan, Benkui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROTROPIC MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0030455121     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<1604:CIOERS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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