The nonlinear evolution of unstable coupled equatorial ocean-atmosphere modes

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-52

  Van Der Vaart, P C F ^a   Dijkstra, H A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032418257     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-5-39-1998     Document Type: Article

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