Energy propagation of long extratropical Rossby waves over slowly varying zonal topography

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 473, Issue , 2002, Pages 295-319

  Tailleux, Rémi ^a   McWilliams, James C ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESONANCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EXTRATROPICAL ROSSBY WAVES;

FLUID MECHANICS;

ENERGY; OCEAN; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037176313     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112002002422     Document Type: Article

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