Scale ratios in decaying quasi-geostrophic turbulence

Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 867-874

  Dritschel, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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