Water vapor as an active scalar in tropical atmospheric dynamics

Chaos

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 451-459

  Sobel, Adam H ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0036592354     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1480795     Document Type: Article

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