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Original Articles

Structural determinism of equilibrated baroclinic waves in a two-layer model and equivalent barotropy

Brian ReinholdDepartment of Meteorology, Arrhenius Laboratory, University, of Stockholm, S-106 91Stockholm, Sweden
Pages 375-391 | Received 01 Jun 1987, Accepted 29 Jan 1988, Published online: 15 Dec 2016

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