Meaning of Kelvin wave | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.
2. A long-scale perturbation mode of a vortex in superfluid dynamics.

Examples

“Geophysicists have leaned on a mathematical explanation for equatorial Kelvin waves since the 1960s, but for some, that explanation wasn’t entirely satisfying.”

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