| 11. | A "'barotropic flow "'is a generalization of a barotropic atmosphere.
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| 12. | Examples include barotropic layers of the oceans, an isothermal ideal gas or an isentropic ideal gas.
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| 13. | Water, which varies only a few percent with temperature and salinity, may be approximated as barotropic.
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| 14. | In astrophysics, barotropic fluids are important in the study of stellar interiors or of the interstellar medium.
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| 15. | For this reason, this model may also be called barotropic ( density depends only on pressure ).
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| 16. | For the isothermal-barotropic model, density and pressure turn out to be exponential functions of altitude.
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| 17. | The terms " barotropic " and " baroclinic ", are used to distinguish the vertical structure of Rossby waves.
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| 18. | The tropics are more nearly barotropic than mid-latitudes because temperature is more nearly horizontally uniform in the tropics.
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| 19. | The barotropic fluid is a useful model of fluid behavior in a wide variety of scientific fields, from meteorology to astrophysics.
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| 20. | Thus, in a " barotropic " fluid ( which is defined by zero baroclinity ), these surfaces are parallel.
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