Helicity production and maintenance in a baroclinic atmosphere

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 409-416

  Kurgansky, Michael V ^a,b  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC MODE; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748117609     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0148     Document Type: Review

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