Triad instability of planetary Rossby waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2158-2171

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Pedlosky, Joseph ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORIOLIS FORCE; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; WATER WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; BAROTROPIC WAVES; QUASIGEOSTROPIC THEORY; ROSSBY WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; BAROTROPIC WAVE; CORIOLIS FORCE; GROWTH RATE; INSTABILITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 34848833896     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3100.1     Document Type: Article

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