Finite amplitude stratified air flow past isolated mountains on an f-plane

Sigurdur Thorsteinsson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v40i3.11796

Finite amplitude stratified air flow past isolated mountains on an f-plane

Tellus

Volume 40 (1988): Issue 3

By: Sigurdur Thorsteinsson

Open Access

|Jan 1988

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