"Editor's Commentary: On the mutual adjustment of pressure and velocity" by C.-G. Rossby
 

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C.-G. Rossby

Abstract

These are the original geostrophic adjustment papers. Rossby starts out by asking what,if anything, limits the ability for a flow to be in geostrophic balance (to precisely follow pressure contours on a rotating planet). This topic is now a classroom standard, but we often forget how insightful the original articles are...

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