The motion of geophysical vortices

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1763, 1999, Pages 3427-3444

  McDonald, N Robb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Eddies; Fluid dynamics; Meteorology; Oceanography; Vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347037877     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0501     Document Type: Article

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