Instability of meridional baroclinic currents

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1075-1093

  Walker, Alison ^a   Pedlosky, Joseph ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; STABILITY;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 0036505838     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1075:IOMBC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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