Atmospheric dynamics: some fundamentals, with observational implications.


M.E.McIntyre
Centre for Atmospheric Science at the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Cambridge University
In: Proc. Internat. School Phys. ``Enrico Fermi'', CXV Course, ed. J. C. Gille, G. Visconti; Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Toronto, North-Holland, 313-386. (ISBN 0-444-89896-4.)

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