On a physical mechanism for Rossby wave propagation

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A simple class of barotropic Rossby waves are shown to propagate westward as the geostrophically balanced meridional windfield periodically reverses in response to a small meridional pressure gradient arising from the latitudinal variation of the Coriolis parameter. -Author

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Durran, D. R. (1988). On a physical mechanism for Rossby wave propagation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 45(24), 4020–4022. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1988)045<4020:OAPMFR>2.0.CO;2

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