Design and construction of an affordable rotating table for classroom demonstrations of geophysical fluid dynamics principles

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1827-1834

  McNoldy, Brian D ^a   Cheng, Anning ^a   Eitzen, Zachary A ^a   Moore, Richard W ^a   Persing, John ^a   Schaefer, Kevin ^a   Schubert, Wayne H ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ROTATING TABLE;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0742321610     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-84-12-1827     Document Type: Article

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