Trapped planetary (Rossby) waves observed in the Indian Ocean by satellite borne altimeters

De-Leon, Yair; Paldor, Nathan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-483-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-483-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-483-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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22 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 22 Jun 2017

Trapped planetary (Rossby) waves observed in the Indian Ocean by satellite borne altimeters

Yair De-Leon and Nathan Paldor

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Jun 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 15 Feb 2017)

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript No. os-2017-3 (Trapped Planetary (Rossby) Waves Observed in the Indian Ocean ‎by Satellite Borne Altimeters)', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'author response to rc1', Nathan Paldor, 29 Mar 2017
RC2: 'Major and minor reviews', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Mar 2017
- AC2: 'author response to RC2', Nathan Paldor, 02 Apr 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Nathan Paldor on behalf of the Authors (18 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Apr 2017) by John M. Huthnance

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (10 May 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 May 2017) by John M. Huthnance

AR by Nathan Paldor on behalf of the Authors (17 May 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

The paper analyzes sea surface height anomalies (SSHAs) observed in the Indian Ocean south of Australia by combining several known methods for phase speed determination. The observed speeds and the meridional variations of the amplitudes of these signals are compared with two theoretical expressions for the phase speed and meridional amplitude structure of Rossby waves. The paper concludes that both the meridional structure of the SSHAs and their phase speeds fit those of trapped Rossby waves.