Plane-parallel Cowling displacement-pressure equations

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Take depth positive downward, vertical fluid displacement positive upward, and Lagrangian pressure perturbation . In a plane-parallel atmosphere with , the Cowling approximation and adiabatic relation give
Indeed the Eulerian perturbations are and . Horizontal momentum gives ; combine this with mass conservation and vertical momentum to eliminate the horizontal displacement. Reversing the sign convention for vertical displacement reverses both displacement-pressure coupling signs.

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