Reference pressure changes and available potential energy in isobaric coordinates

Franklin R. Robertson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v37i1.11652

Reference pressure changes and available potential energy in isobaric coordinates

Tellus

Volume 37 (1985): Issue 1

By: Franklin R. Robertson

Open Access

|Jan 1985

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