The equatorial counterpart of the quasi-geostrophic model

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 637, Issue , 2009, Pages 327-356

  Theiss, Jürgen ^a   Mohebalhojeh, Ali R ^b  

^a THEISS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

BALANCED MODELS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK; NONLINEAR NORMAL MODES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; ROSSBY NUMBERS; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY NUMBER; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; DISPERSION; MODELING;

EID: 78651376553     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009008052     Document Type: Article

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