Comments on "The effect of bottom topography on the speed of long extratropical planetary waves"

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1536-1541

  Tailleux, Rémi ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; PLANETARY WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0041738002     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<1536:COTEOB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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