Bifurcation properties of quasi-geostrophic, barotropic models and their relation to atmospheric blocking

E. Källen

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v34i3.10809

Bifurcation properties of quasi-geostrophic, barotropic models and their relation to atmospheric blocking

Tellus

Volume 34 (1982): Issue 3

By: E. Källen

Open Access

|Jan 1982

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