Before revision: On a rotating sphere such as the earth, f varies with the sine of latitude; a linear approximationto this variability about a given latitude (in the sense of a Taylor series expansion) in the so-called f-plane approximation, this variation is ignored, and a value of f appropriate for a particular latitude is used throughout the domain.
After revision: On a rotating sphere such as the earth, f varies with the sine of latitude; in the so-called f-plane approximation, this variation is ignored, and a value of f appropriate for a particular latitude is used throughout the domain.