| 1. | Barotropic Rossby waves have the highest speeds and do not vary vertically.
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| 2. | Rossby waves are caused by changes in the Coriolis effect with latitude.
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| 3. | For oceanographers, the Rossby waves don't tell them anything new about ocean conditions.
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| 4. | The Rossby wave instability occurs because of the local wave trapping in a disc.
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| 5. | He identified and characterized both the jet stream and Rossby waves in the atmosphere.
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| 6. | There are two types of Rossby waves, barotropic and baroclinic.
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| 7. | Barotropic Rossby waves do not vary in the vertical, and have the fastest propagation speeds.
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| 8. | A " cylinder " planet has no Rossby Waves.
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| 9. | Inertial waves affected by the slope of the ocean floor are often called Rossby waves.
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| 10. | Their scales were close to those of the planetary baroclinic Rossby waves . . ."
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