Structural determinism of equilibrated baroclinic waves in a two-layer model and equivalent barotropy

Brian Reinhold

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v40i5.11808

Structural determinism of equilibrated baroclinic waves in a two-layer model and equivalent barotropy

Tellus

Volume 40 (1988): Issue 5

By: Brian Reinhold

Open Access

|Jan 1988

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