Energy analysis of a recent approximation to the atmospheric primitive equations

Duane E. Stevens

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v36i5.11645

Energy analysis of a recent approximation to the atmospheric primitive equations

Tellus

Volume 36 (1984): Issue 5

By: Duane E. Stevens

Open Access

|Jan 1984

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