Flow response to large-scale topography: the Greenland tip jet

James D. Doyle; Melvyn A. Shapiro

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v51i5.14471

Flow response to large-scale topography: the Greenland tip jet

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Volume 51 (1999): Issue 5

By: James D. Doyle and Melvyn A. Shapiro

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Submitted on: Oct 6, 1998

Accepted on: May 7, 1999

Published on: Jan 1, 1999

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