Eigenstructure of eddy microfronts

L. Mahrt; H. Frank

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v40i2.11786

Eigenstructure of eddy microfronts

Tellus

Volume 40 (1988): Issue 2

By: L. Mahrt and H. Frank

Open Access

|Jan 1988

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