Stability of a two-layer fluid model to nongeostrophic disturbances

William Blumen

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v25i1.9640

Stability of a two-layer fluid model to nongeostrophic disturbances

Tellus

Volume 25 (1973): Issue 1

By: William Blumen

Open Access

|Jan 1973

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