Long period divergent planetary waves
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Vol. 5 (1) , 359-367
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03091927308236125
Abstract
A simple first order perturbation procedure is used to obtain an equation for divergent planetary waves when the period is much greater than the pendulum day. For unbounded regions the equation is the s2me as one derived by Longuet-Higgins (1965), but in bounded basins it is different. As an example, the eigen frequencies of a rectangular basin are calculated for a number of values of the parameters. The energy density of planetary waves is also considered with results which correct those of Buchwald (1972) in the case of bounded basins.Keywords
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