Global well-posedness of the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations of large scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 245-267

  Cao, Chongsheng ^a   Titi, Edriss S ^b,c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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EID: 36348955539     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4007/annals.2007.166.245     Document Type: Article

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