Planetary wave modes in the thermocline: Non-Doppler-shift mode, advective mode and Green mode

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 556, 1999, Pages 1315-1339

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean dynamics; Quasi geostrophic theory

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLANETARY WAVE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; THERMOCLINE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032782360     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1999.49712555611     Document Type: Article

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