Some of the most important waves are called Kelvin waves and equatorial Rossby waves. Kelvin waves are centered around the equator, propagate to the east, and take between 2.5 and 17 days to ...

First, it disturbed the atmosphere in just the right way to set off an undulation in the jet stream — a river of very strong winds in the upper atmosphere — that atmospheric scientists call a Rossby ...

Rossby waves in the atmosphere extend for hundreds ... such as an air current passing over a mountain range. Kelvin waves occur in the Pacific in a tight corridor straddling the equator.