Influence of a step-like coastline on the basin scale vorticity budget of mid-latitude gyre models
By: Frédéric Dupont, David N. Straub and Charles A. Lin
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v55i3.12094 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 255 - 272
Submitted on: Feb 12, 2002
Accepted on: Nov 8, 2002
Published on: Jan 1, 2003
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2003 Frédéric Dupont, David N. Straub, Charles A. Lin, published by Stockholm University Press
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