Local vertical, latitudinal variation of the Earth's angular rotation vector - resulting from curvature of the Earth's surface - provides the restoring force for oceanic Rossby waves (Pedlosky 1979).
(Local vertical, latitudinal variation of the Earth's angular rotation vector - resulting from curvature of the Earth's surface; provides; the restoring force; for oceanic Rossby waves)
Local vertical, latitudinal variation of the Earth's angular rotation vector - resulting from curvature of the Earth's surface
provides
the restoring force for oceanic Rossby waves