The generation of available potential energy, according to Lorenz’ exact and approximate equations

Peter Siegmund

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v46i5.15645

The generation of available potential energy, according to Lorenz’ exact and approximate equations

Tellus

Volume 46 (1994): Issue 5

By: Peter Siegmund

Open Access

|Jan 1994

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