The structure of the turbulent Ekman layer

Urban Svensson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v31i4.10442

The structure of the turbulent Ekman layer

Tellus

Volume 31 (1979): Issue 4

By: Urban Svensson

Open Access

|Jan 1979

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