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In what follows, we will restrict our discussion to atmospheric flows for which the horizontal scale L 0 is much smaller than the mean radius a 0 of the earth(a 0 ≅ 6367km). Based on this hypothesis, because the ratio δ = LO/aO ≪ 1, one can describe with a very good approximation the “regional” atmospheric flows in a system of Cartesian coordinates, associated with the plane normal to the gravitational acceleration 9 (of magnitude 9) resulting from the Newtonian gravitational pull (the true gravitational acceleration from the pull of the earth on the surface) and the centrifugical force per unit mass, due to the earth’s rotation.
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Zeytounian, R.K. (2002). Atmospheric Flow Equations and Lee Waves. In: Theory and Applications of Nonviscous Fluid Flows. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56215-0_6
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