Kelvin wave

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.
    — Geophysicists have leaned on a mathematical explanation for equatorial Kelvin waves since the 1960s, but for some, that explanation wasn’t entirely satisfying.
  2. A long-scale perturbation mode of a vortex in superfluid dynamics.

词形变化

Kelvin waves plural

词源

Named after Lord Kelvin, the discoverer (1879).
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