Kelvin wave (English, noun)
expansion: Kelvin wave (plural Kelvin waves)
Senses:
topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.
glosses: A long-scale perturbation mode of a vortex in superfluid dynamics.
Forms:
form: Kelvin waves
tags: plural