Abstract
An episode of velocity measurements in the epilimnion at a midlake station in Lake Überlingen and taken from the campaign in October 1972 discloses a uni-nodal Poincaré-type baroclinic mode response with a 4 h period. We discuss the data and interpret it in terms of a two-layered linear wave model on the rotating Earth.
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Bäuerle, E. Transverse baroclinic oscillations in Lake Überlingen. Aquatic Science 56, 145–160 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00877205
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