On nonlinear cascades of atmospheric energy and enstrophy in a two-dimensional spectral index

Tsing-Chang Chen; Aksel Wiin-Nielsen

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v30i4.10346

On nonlinear cascades of atmospheric energy and enstrophy in a two-dimensional spectral index

Tellus

Volume 30 (1978): Issue 4

By: Tsing-Chang Chen and Aksel Wiin-Nielsen

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|Jan 1978

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v30i4.10346 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 313 - 322

Submitted on: Jul 13, 1977

Published on: Jan 1, 1978

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