Symmetric instability of stratified geostrophic flow

Jan Erik Weber

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v32i2.10492

Symmetric instability of stratified geostrophic flow

Tellus

Volume 32 (1980): Issue 2

By: Jan Erik Weber

Open Access

|Jan 1980

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