 Rossby deformation radius

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Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24

In a rotating shallow-water layer,

L_{R} = \frac{g h _{0}}{∣ f ∣}

is the horizontal scale on which gravity and Coriolis effects balance.

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