Hydrostatic Airflow over Mountains

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 31, Issue C, 1989, Pages 1-41

  Smith, Ronald B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; BREAKING WAVE; HYDROSTATICS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; STRATIFIED FLUID;

EID: 27144539037     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(08)60052-7     Document Type: Article

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