On Rossby waves in spiral galaxies

Robert E. Dickinson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v16i3.8975

On Rossby waves in spiral galaxies

Tellus

Volume 16 (1964): Issue 3

By: Robert E. Dickinson

Open Access

|Jan 1964

Abstract

Galactostrophic eddy velocities are used to eliminate the dependence of the potential vorticity equation on the velocities. The resultant time dependent equation involves the mass densities alone.

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