Predicting areas of sustainable error growth in quasigeostrophic flows using perturbation alignment properties

G. Rivière; B. L. Hua

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v56i5.14465

Predicting areas of sustainable error growth in quasigeostrophic flows using perturbation alignment properties

Tellus

Volume 56 (2004): Issue 5

By: G. Rivière and B. L. Hua

Open Access

|Jan 2004

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