The Rossby number (Ro), named for Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, is a dimensionless number used in describing fluid flow. The Rossby number is the ratio of...

Coriolis forces; a small Rossby number indicates a system is strongly affected by Coriolis forces, and a large Rossby number indicates a system in which...

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Rossby waves, also known as planetary waves, are a type of inertial wave naturally occurring in rotating fluids. They were first identified by Sweden-born...

must be very high. It is likely that the Rossby number U/(fD) would be a valuable dynamic similarity number. The Boatswain's pipe is similar to the police...

angular velocity. The Rossby number is a measure of the departure of the vorticity from that of solid body rotation. The Rossby number must be small for the...

In atmospheric dynamics and physical oceanography, the Rossby radius of deformation is the length scale at which rotational effects become as important...

The Rossby parameter (or simply beta β {\displaystyle \beta } ) is a number used in geophysics and meteorology which arises due to the meridional variation...

oceans of planets Rossby number, a dimensionless number used in describing fluid flow. The Rossby number is the ratio of inertial Rossby parameter, used...

{\frac {\mathrm {Ro} }{\mathrm {Re} }}}.} where Ro is the Rossby number and Re is the Reynolds number. These equations can generally not be used in oceanography...

Rossby number Rossby wave A very large-scale atmospheric wave appearing on an upper-air isobaric analysis of the middle and upper troposphere. Rossby...

a liquid Rossby number – Ratio of inertial force to Coriolis force Weber number – Dimensionless number in fluid mechanics Womersley number – Dimensionless...

of small Rossby number, so that inertial forces are an order of magnitude smaller than the Coriolis and pressure forces. If the Rossby number is equal...

motion. These considerations are captured in the nondimensionalized Rossby number. In stability calculations, the rate of change of f {\displaystyle f}...

Topographic Rossby waves are geophysical waves that form due to bottom irregularities. For ocean dynamics, the bottom irregularities are on the ocean floor...

the Coriolis force can be determined by a ratio known as the Rossby number. When this number is much larger than 1, the Coriolis force is insignificant...

characterized by the Ekman number and the Rossby number rather than by the Taylor number. There are various definitions of the Taylor number which are not all...

x}}\end{aligned}}} The validity of this approximation depends on the local Rossby number. It is invalid at the equator, because f is equal to zero there, and...

Mesoscale processes are characterized by having a relatively large Rossby number compared to synoptic scale processes. Thus, over shorter distances as...

geostrophic height should have consistent magnitude, i.e., of the order of Rossby number. The reference state is zonally averaged potential temperature and geopotential...

the advective term on the left may be neglected (reasonable if the Rossby number is much less than unity) and that the flow is incompressible (density...

diagonals give common symbols for the quantities, and the given dimensionless number is the ratio of the left column quantity over top row quantity; e.g. Re...

with small Rossby number, typically having large length scales. Geostrophic conditions are also realised for flows having small Ekman number, as opposed...

society is of smaller scale compared to the Rossby radius; so semigeostrophic theory is used. Generally, Rossby number—ratio of inertial to coriolis force is...

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of long-range guns or the circulation of the Earth's atmosphere (see Rossby number). Neglecting air resistance, an object dropped from a 50-meter-high...

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Rossby-gravity waves are equatorially trapped waves (much like Kelvin waves), meaning that they rapidly decay as their distance increases away from the...

is called geostrophic balance, and is equivalent to saying that the Rossby number is small. Assuming also that the wave height is very small compared...