Planetary-scale baroclinic envelope Rossby solitons in a two-layer model and their interaction with synoptic-scale eddies

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-74

  Luo, Dehai ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric blocking; Planetary scale envelope Rossby soliton; Synoptic scale eddies

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EDDY; ROSSBY WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE;

EID: 0033994121     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0265(99)00018-4     Document Type: Article

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