Surface quasigeostrophic turbulence: The study of an active scalar

Chaos

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 439-450

  Sukhatme, Jai ^a   Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0036592410     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1480758     Document Type: Article

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