Balance model for equatorial long waves
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J. Fluid Mech., (2013), vol. 725, pp. 55–90. c © Cambridge University Press 2013. The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence . The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.146
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