Seasonal variation and latitudinal distribution of the instability of two-level quasi-geostrophic waves in horizontal shear

Chung-Muh Tang

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v25i3.9658

Seasonal variation and latitudinal distribution of the instability of two-level quasi-geostrophic waves in horizontal shear

Tellus

Volume 25 (1973): Issue 3

By: Chung-Muh Tang

Open Access

|Jan 1973

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