On the resonance of an external planetary wave and its interaction with the mean zonal flow
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v40i3.11792 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 177 - 187
Submitted on: Jan 8, 1987
Accepted on: Aug 28, 1987
Published on: Jan 1, 1988
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1988 Pierre Dionne, Herschel L. Mitchell, Jacques Derome, published by Stockholm University Press
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