Gravity wave drag and global angular momentum: geostrophic adjustment processes

Joseph Egger

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v55i5.12105

Gravity wave drag and global angular momentum: geostrophic adjustment processes

Tellus

Volume 55 (2003): Issue 5

By: Joseph Egger

Open Access

|Jan 2003

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