The emergence of jets and vortices in freely evolving, shallow-water turbulence on a sphere

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DOI10.1063/1.868929zbMath1087.76057OpenAlexW2105756363MaRDI QIDQ4426425

Lorenzo M. Polvani, James Y.-K. Cho

Publication date: 1996

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868929




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