On anomalous meridional circulations and Eliassen-Palm flux divergences in an idealized model of dissipating, non-breaking Rossby waves

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 27, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 575-600

  Mo, Ruping ^a,b   McIntyre, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0037653875     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0377-0265(97)00031-6     Document Type: Article

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