Baroclinic instability in a two-layer model with a free boundary and β effect

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C10, 1999, Pages 23357-23366

  Olascoaga, M J ^a,b   Ripa, P ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BETA-PLANE; CIRCULATION MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 0033569005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900192     Document Type: Article

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