Free barotropic Rossby wave dynamics of the wintertime low-frequency flow

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-23

  Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a   Newman, Matthew ^a   Borges, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; DYNAMICS; VORTICITY; WAVE;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; BAROTROPIC ATMOSPHERE; ROSSBY WAVES; VORTICITY EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

EID: 0031463946     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0005:FBRWDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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