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An initial-value problem for testing numerical models of the global shallow-water equations Cover

An initial-value problem for testing numerical models of the global shallow-water equations

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|Jan 2004

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Language: English
Page range: 429 - 440
Submitted on: Sep 23, 2003
Accepted on: Mar 24, 2004
Published on: Jan 1, 2004
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2004 Joseph Galewsky, Richard K. Scott, Lorenzo M. Polvani, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.