Scaling laws for barotropic vortex beta-drift

Ronald B. Smith; Xiaofan Li; Bin Wang

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v49i4.14684

Scaling laws for barotropic vortex beta-drift

Tellus

Volume 49 (1997): Issue 4

By: Ronald B. Smith, Xiaofan Li and Bin Wang

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v49i4.14684 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 474 - 485

Submitted on: Jul 10, 1996

Accepted on: Mar 11, 1997

Published on: Jan 1, 1997

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© 1997 Ronald B. Smith, Xiaofan Li, Bin Wang, published by Stockholm University Press
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