Rossby wavepacket propagation in a zonally-varying basic flow

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 588-602

  Enomoto, Takeshi ^a,b   Matsuda, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Sci Bldg #1 ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAROTROPIC MODE; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033372727     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v51i5.14477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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