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Apply the intended, corrected dispersion relation in c. A uniform mean zonal wind gives ${\omega }_{\mathrm{ground}}=\hat{\omega }+kU$. Stationarity with $U=-20\mathrm{m}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ therefore requires eastward intrinsic phase speed $\hat{\omega }/k=-U=20\mathrm{m}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. With $k=1/a$,The period determines $\Omega =2\pi /(24.4\times 3600\mathrm{s})$ and $\beta =2\Omega /a\simeq 4.21\times 10^{-11}{\mathrm{m}}^{-1}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. Hence

A storm within roughly $12^{\circ }$ of the equator has substantial projection on the Gaussian mode. There is no sharp latitude cutoff: $|y|=L_D$ gives amplitude $e^{-1/2}$ and the $1/e$ amplitude latitude is about $16.4^{\circ }$. Forcing outside that core has progressively weaker overlap.

The intrinsic wave is eastward even though its observed ground pattern is stationary; westward advection cancels its phase propagation. Its intrinsic period is about $12.4$ Earth days. The inferred $|m|\gg 1/(2H)$ puts it in the short-vertical-wavelength branch, well below the long-wave speed $2NH=200\mathrm{m}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. For upward energy radiation, $\partial \hat{\omega }/\partial m$ must be positive, which selects $m<0$ for positive $k,\hat{\omega }$: vertical phase propagation is then downward. Dust absorption supplies thermal forcing with a zonally asymmetric component; the response does not imply that dust itself moves eastward at the intrinsic phase speed.

Southern spring to summer, the warmer perihelion-side dust season, is a reasonable climatological window for such a regional storm. This seasonal inference uses observed dust climatology, not the dispersion relation: the specified wind and wave parameters alone do not determine a unique season, and individual regional storms can occur outside that window.^[ref]

Heating over land often favours a deeper cyclonic thermal low, while cooling favours a shallower anticyclonic thermal high. Diabatic heating and surface friction violate the assumptions of simple parcel PV conservation; a vertical profile is needed for a quantitative statement.

In the tropical free troposphere, small Coriolis parameter and rapid internal gravity wave adjustment keep horizontal temperature gradients weak. An idealized model therefore suppresses horizontal temperature perturbations at leading order and balances diabatic heating by vertical advection of the reference stratification. This is not a claim that surface temperature or moisture is spatially uniform, nor is it ordinary midlatitude geostrophic balance.