Climate science in the tropics: Waves, vortices and PDEs

Nonlinearity

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Khouider, Boualem ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b   Stechmann, Samuel N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84870469144     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: 13616544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/26/1/R1     Document Type: Review

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