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The Laplace tidal equation which plays a basic role in tide theory is investigated. A method of numerically-analytic integration of the Laplace tidal equation over the entire sphere without using the β-plane approximation is developed and its nonaxisymmetric solutions are investigated. Harmonics corresponding to long-period oscillations known as planetary or Rossby waves are obtained.
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Original Russian Text © M.I. Ivanov, 2007, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2007, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 151–161.
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Ivanov, M.I. Nonaxisymmetric solutions of Laplace's tidal equation and Rossby waves. Fluid Dyn 42, 644–653 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001546280704014X
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