Energy spectra of Rossby and gravity waves

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-48

  Terasaki, Koji ^a   Tanaka, H L ^a   Zagar N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

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EID: 84857612120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2011-012     Document Type: Article

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