Stability properties of a barotropic surface-water jet observed in the Denmark Strait

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 979-989

  Fristedt, Tim ^a   Hietala, Riikka ^b   Lundberg, Peter ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; CIRCULATION; JET FLOW;

DENMARK STRAIT;

EID: 0033372729     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0870.1999.00030.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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