Vortex merging in a 1 1/2 -layer fluid on an f plane

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 233-242

  Lumpkin, Rick ^a,b   Flament, Pierre ^a,b,d   Kloosterziel, Rudolf ^a   Armi, Laurence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; FLUID FLOW; VORTEX;

FLUID FLOW; LAYERED MEDIUM; VORTEX;

EID: 0033993977     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0233:VMIALF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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