Self-oscillatory mechanism of inducing a vortex structure by a stationary local source over a sloping bottom in a rotating fluid

Oceanology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-50

  Zatsepin, A G ^a   Didkovski, V L ^a   Semenov, A V ^a  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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