A note on the finite amplitude dynamics of spatially growing baroclinic waves on an f-plane

Lee-Or Merkine

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v30i6.10393

A note on the finite amplitude dynamics of spatially growing baroclinic waves on an f-plane

Tellus

Volume 30 (1978): Issue 6

By: Lee-Or Merkine

Open Access

|Jan 1978

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