Orographically generated nonlinear waves in rotating and non-rotating two-layer flow

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

Volumn 462, Issue 2065, 2006, Pages 3-20

  Johnson, E R ^a   Esler, J G ^a   Rump, O J ^a   Sommeria, J ^b   Vilenski, G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

Forced rotating BDA equation; Nonlinear waves; Orography; Two layer rotating flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846329145     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2005.1550     Document Type: Article

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