SOME OBSERVATIONS OF THE BEHAVIOR OF SPHERICAL HARMONIC WAVES*

Open Access

1 May 1965

journal article
Published by American Meteorological Society in Monthly Weather Review

Vol. 93 (5) , 307-312
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1965)093<0307:sootbo>2.3.co;2

Abstract

One month of daily spherical harmonic expansions of 500-mb. height in the Northern Hemisphere were studied. The movements of the waves are compared with the Rossby-Haurwitz wave speeds computed from the zonal geostrophic wind profile. Systematic differences between the observed and theoretical wave speeds are found.

Keywords

OBSERVATIONS
SPHERICAL HARMONIC WAVES
BEHAVIOR OF SPHERICAL HARMONIC