An atmospheric balanced model of an axisymmetric vortex with zero potential vorticity

Thomas Frisius

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v57i1.14605

An atmospheric balanced model of an axisymmetric vortex with zero potential vorticity

Tellus

Volume 57 (2005): Issue 1

By: Thomas Frisius

Open Access

|Jan 2005

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