On the ellipticity of isolated anticyclonic eddies

Doron Nof

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v37i1.11656

On the ellipticity of isolated anticyclonic eddies

Tellus

Volume 37 (1985): Issue 1

By: Doron Nof

Open Access

|Jan 1985

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