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Damped equatorial Kelvin and Rossby response
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Damped equatorial Kelvin and Rossby response
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2026-09-28
With Rayleigh
friction
rate
γ
and thermal
damping
rate
α
,
a
steady localized equatorial
forcing
produces an eastward
Kelvin
tail of zonal scale
c
/
α
γ
and westward Rossby tails of scales
c
/
[(
2
n
+
1
)
α
γ
]
. Their common meridional scale is
[
c
γ
/
α
/
β
]
1/2
.
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