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Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1163-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1163-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
Research article
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03 Aug 2023
Research article |  | 03 Aug 2023

Geostrophic adjustment on the midlatitude β plane

Itamar Yacoby, Nathan Paldor, and Hezi Gildor

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The transition from an arbitrary initial sea surface height to a geostrophic balance in which the velocity is steady was solved last century for constant Coriolis frequency, f(y), where y is the latitude. This study extends the theory to the realistic case in which f(y) is linear with y. We find that the variation in f(y) translates the steady geostrophic state westward as low-frequency Rossby waves that are harmonic in narrow domains and trapped near the equatorward boundary in wide ones.
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