The Lecture Notes in Physics Part 1 doc

[...]... importance of the non-linear advection term and the viscous term, respectively, with respect to the Coriolis term 2 × v In the following, we will drop the tildes for convenience 1. 1 .1. 1 Geostrophic Flow In many geophysical flow situations both the Rossby number and the Ekman number have very small values, i.e Ro