Experiment on the self-propagating quasi-monopolar vortex

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2741-2751

  Voropayev, Sergey I ^a,b,c   Mceachern, Grady B ^a   Boyer, Don L ^a   Fernando, Harindra J S ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; PROPAGATION; VORTEX;

FLUID DYNAMICS; VORTEX;

EID: 0033375949     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<2741:EOTSPQ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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