A note on stabilising and destabilising effects of Ekman boundary layers

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 215-223

  Zhang, Keke ^b   Roberts, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ekman boundary layers; Rotating convection

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; ROTATING FLOW;

EID: 0032442902     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929808245474     Document Type: Article

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