Further results on the stability of rapidly rotating vortices in the asymmetric balance formulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 475-482

  Ren, Shuzhan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC ASYMMETRIC BALANCE MODELS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC DYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0033076820     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0475:FROTSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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