Upstream development in idealized baroclinic wave experiments

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 574-587

  Wernli, Heini ^a   Shapiro, Melvyn A ^b   Schmidli, JÜRG ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; WAVE GENERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CYCLOGENESIS; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 0033393352     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v51i5.14476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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