Impact of wind forcing, bottom topography, and inertia on midlatitude jet separation in a quasigeostrophic model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2460-2476

  Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Chassignet, Eric P ^a   Paiva, Afonso M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 5344238924     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<2460:IOWFBT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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