Mean flow generated by circulation on a β-plane: An analogy with the moving flame experiment

John A. Whitehead

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v27i4.9983

Mean flow generated by circulation on a β-plane: An analogy with the moving flame experiment

Tellus

Volume 27 (1975): Issue 4

By: John A. Whitehead

Open Access

|Jan 1975

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