A note on a geophysical fluid dynamics variational principle

A. D. Kirwan

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v36i2.11615

A note on a geophysical fluid dynamics variational principle

Tellus

Volume 36 (1984): Issue 2

By: A. D. Kirwan

Open Access

|Jan 1984

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