A first look at wavenumber spectra from GASP data

G. D. Nastrom; K. S. Gage

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v35i5.11449

A first look at wavenumber spectra from GASP data

Tellus

Volume 35 (1983): Issue 5

By: G. D. Nastrom and K. S. Gage

Open Access

|Jan 1983

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