Eliassen-Palm flux and eddy potential vorticity flux for a nonquasigeostrophic time-mean flow

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1304-1319

  Lee, M M ^a,b   Leach, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDIES; ELIASSEN-PALM THEORY; FLOW MODELLING;

EID: 0030469055     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<1304:EPFAEP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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