A high-latitude quasi-geostrophic delta plane model derived from spherical geometry

Uwe Harlander

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v57i1.14601

A high-latitude quasi-geostrophic delta plane model derived from spherical geometry

Tellus

Volume 57 (2005): Issue 1

By: Uwe Harlander

Open Access

|Jan 2005

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