Baroclinic-barotropic adjustments in a meridionally wide domain

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2246-2260

  Nakamura, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

ZONAL-MEAN POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BAROTROPIC WAVE; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; LIFE CYCLE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032741037     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2246:BBAIAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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