Meaning Rossby waves
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Rossby wavesA series of troughs and ridges on quasi-horizontal surfaces in the major belt of upper tropospheric westerlies. The waves are thousands of kilometers long and have significant latitudinal amplitude.
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Rossby wavesthe wave-pattern of flow of the westerly winds which blow in the upper atmosphere. Thought to be the result of diversion of air flow around the Rockies and Andes, they change in both number and amplit [..]
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Rossby wavesAn extraordinarily slow westward-moving ocean wave of low amplitude (10 to 20 centimeters) and great width (hundreds of kilometers) that crosses the Pacific over several decades. (JPL)
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Rossby wavesThe movement of ridges and troughs in the upper wind patterns, primarily the jet stream, circling the earth. Named for Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a U.S. Weather Bureau (NWS) employee, who first theorized abo [..]
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Rossby wavesA series of troughs and ridges on quasi-horizontal surfaces in the major belt of upper tropospheric westerlies. The waves are thousands of kilometers long and have significant latitudinal amplitude.
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Rossby wavesThe movement of ridges and troughs in the upper wind patterns, primarily the jet stream.
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Rossby wavesSeries of long-wavelength troughs and ridges that characterize the planetary-scale westerlies as they encircle the globe; also called long waves.
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Rossby wavesThe movement of ridges and troughs in the upper wind patterns, primarily the jet stream, circling the earth. Named for Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a U.S. Weather Bureau (NWS) employee, who first theorized about the existence of the jet stream in 1939.
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Rossby wavesThe movement of ridges and troughs in the upper wind patterns, primarily the jet stream, circling the earth. Named for Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a U.S. Weather Bureau (NWS) employee, who first theorized abo [..]
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Rossby wavesThe movement of ridges
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Rossby wavesA series of troughs and ridges on quasi-horizontal surfaces in the major belt of upper tropospheric westerlies. The waves are thousands of kilometers long and have significant latitudinal amplitude.
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Rossby wavesThe movement of ridges and troughs in the upper wind patterns, primarily the jet stream, circling the earth. Named for Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a U.S. Weather Bureau (NWS) employee, who first theorized about the existence of the jet stream in 1939.
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