A study of low-frequency unstable planetary waves in realistic zonal and zonally varying basic states*
By: H. L. Tanaka and Ernest C. Kung
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v41i3.11833 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 179 - 199
Submitted on: Oct 12, 1987
Accepted on: Jun 20, 1988
Published on: Jan 1, 1989
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1989 H. L. Tanaka, Ernest C. Kung, published by Stockholm University Press
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