The quasi-nondispersive regimes of long extratropical baroclinic Rossby waves over (slowly varying) topography

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 104-121

  Tailleux, Rémi ^a,b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FLUID DYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; EXTRATROPICAL WAVES; MEAN FLOW; QUASI-NONDISPERSIVE (QND); ROSSBY WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644783992     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2823.1     Document Type: Article

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