Coherent Structure of Zonal Flow and Nonlinear Saturation
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0031-9015,1347-4073
DOI: 10.1143/jpsj.73.2921