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In the previous chapters we have already found wavelike dynamical manifestation in the atmosphere such as Rossby waves. These waves are a consequence of the conservation of absolute vorticity in the sense we have considered the effect of Earth rotation but not the presence of gravity.
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Visconti, G. (2001). Waves in the Atmosphere. In: Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04540-4_10
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