An explicit solution of the linear thermocline equations

A. E. Gill

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v37i3.11672

An explicit solution of the linear thermocline equations

Tellus

Volume 37 (1985): Issue 3

By: A. E. Gill

Open Access

|Jan 1985

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