Spontaneous formation of equatorial jets in freely decaying shallow water turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1272-1274

  Iacono, R ^a   Struglia, M V ^a   Ronchi, C ^a,b  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

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EID: 0040291825     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869898     Document Type: Article

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