Potential vorticity mixing by marginally unstable baroclinic disturbances
By: T. Warn and P. Gauthier
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v41i2.11825 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 115 - 131
Submitted on: Jan 18, 1988
Accepted on: Apr 13, 1988
Published on: Jan 1, 1989
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1989 T. Warn, P. Gauthier, published by Stockholm University Press
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