On the Linear Stability Study of Zonal Incompressible Flows on a Sphere

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 649-665

  Skiba, Yuri N ^a   Adem, Julián ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Linear stability; Zonal flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345064224     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2426(199809)14:5<649::AID-NUM7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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