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Climate Science, Waves and PDEs for the Tropics

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Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

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A reader’s guide to recent applied mathematics development in multi-scale modeling in the tropics is provided here including the mathematical theory of precipitation fronts as well as singular limits with variable coefficients in the fast variables.

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Majda, A.J. (2012). Climate Science, Waves and PDEs for the Tropics. In: Holden, H., Karlsen, K. (eds) Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Abel Symposia, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25361-4_12

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