Inertial instability of large Rossby number horizontal shear flows in a thin homogeneous layer

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 185-208

  Shen, Colin Y ^a   Evans, Thomas E ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROSSBY NUMBER; ROTATING PLANE; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0031661284     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0265(98)00042-6     Document Type: Article

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