Topographic Waves in Channels and Lakes on the f-Plane

The last one or two decades have witnessed an increased interest in to­ pographic Rossby waves, both from a theoretical computational as well as an observational point of view. However, even though long periodic pro­ cesses were observed in lakes and ocean basins with considerable detail, it appears that interpretation in terms of physical models is not suffi­ ciently conclusive. The reasons for t...