Distributions of available potential and kinetic energy budget quantities associated with wintertime cyclone activity along the eastern coasts of Asia and North America

John V. Zapotocny

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v42i5.11894

Distributions of available potential and kinetic energy budget quantities associated with wintertime cyclone activity along the eastern coasts of Asia and North America

Tellus

Volume 42 (1990): Issue 5

By: John V. Zapotocny

Open Access

|Jan 1990

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