Wave interactions and the transition to chaos of baroclinic waves in a thermally driven rotating annulus

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

Volumn 355, Issue 1722, 1997, Pages 101-153

  Fruh W G ^a,b   Read, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3142583752     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0003     Document Type: Article

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