RE: Rossby waves

[sample@lyon.edu (John D. Sample)]

> Hi;
>
> Here are a couple of general references that might be relevant. I don't
> recall if Rossby waves are explicitly mentioned but the idea of internal
> waves (as opposed to surface waves) are:
>
> Osborn & Burch; Science 1980 vol 208 p451.
> Russell Herman; American Scientist vol 80 p350, 1992
>
> kyle
This may not be what most people are looking for, but there are a few pages
devoted to Rossby waves in Mechanics of Continua and Wave Dynamics by
L. Brekhovskikh and V. Goncharov (Springer).  It is a fairly technical
treatment.

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