A three dimensional wave activity flux applicable to inertio-gravity waves

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 108-111

  Miyahara, Saburo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 85035816564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2006-028     Document Type: Article

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