Dale R. Durran
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A simple class of barotropic Rossby waves are shown to propagate westward as the graphically balanced meridional windfield periodically reverses in response to a small meridional pressure gradient arising from the latitudinal variation of the Coriolis parameter.
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A simple class of barotropic Rossby waves are shown to propagate westward as the graphically balanced meridional windfield periodically reverses in response to a small meridional pressure gradient arising from the latitudinal variation of the Coriolis parameter.
Key concepts: Rossby wave, Barotropic fluid, Zonal and meridional, Rossby radius of deformation, Rossby number, Geophysics, Geology, Meridional flow