Helicity flux in a compressible baroclinic atmosphere and its properties

Izvestiya - Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-8

  Kurgansky, M V ^a,b  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PROCESS; BAROCLINIC WAVE; COMPRESSIBILITY; KINEMATICS; VORTICITY;

EID: 15044353376     PISSN: 00014338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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