Wave Interactions and Baroclinic Chaos: A Paradigm for Long Timescale Variability in Planetary Atmospheres

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 231-249

  Read, Peter L ^a   Collins, Matthew ^a   Früh, Wolf Gerrit ^a   Lewis, Stephen R ^a   Lovegrove, Alistair F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; STABILITY; WAVES;

BAROCLINIC CHAOS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE; CHAOS; INTERACTION; WAVE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CHAOS;

EID: 0031899416     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00063-5     Document Type: Article

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