Linear mountain drag and averaged pseudo-momentum flux profiles in the presence of trapped lee waves

François Lott

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v50i1.14509

Linear mountain drag and averaged pseudo-momentum flux profiles in the presence of trapped lee waves

Tellus

Volume 50 (1998): Issue 1

By: François Lott

Open Access

|Jan 1998

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