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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">In meteorology, a [[scale]] in which the curvature of the earth is not negligible.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This is the scale of the high tropospheric [[long-wave]] patterns, with four or five waves around the hemisphere in middle latitudes. These waves are within the province of both the [[general circulation]] and [[synoptic meteorology]], but the terminology should distinguish this scale from that of the [[migratory]] high and low pressure systems of the lower [[troposphere]]. [[Rossby waves]] and other long [[barotropic]] waves are large-scale disturbances. <br/>''See'' [[cyclonic scale]].</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">In meteorology, a [[scale]] in which the curvature of the earth is not negligible.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This is the scale of the high tropospheric [[long wave|long-wave]] patterns, with four or five waves around the hemisphere in middle latitudes. These waves are within the province of both the [[general circulation|general circulation]] and [[synoptic meteorology]], but the terminology should distinguish this scale from that of the [[migratory]] high and low pressure systems of the lower [[troposphere]]. [[Rossby waves]] and other long [[barotropic]] waves are large-scale disturbances. <br/>''See'' [[cyclonic scale]].</div><br/> </div> | ||
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large scale
In meteorology, a scale in which the curvature of the earth is not negligible.
This is the scale of the high tropospheric long-wave patterns, with four or five waves around the hemisphere in middle latitudes. These waves are within the province of both the general circulation and synoptic meteorology, but the terminology should distinguish this scale from that of the migratory high and low pressure systems of the lower troposphere. Rossby waves and other long barotropic waves are large-scale disturbances.
See cyclonic scale.
See cyclonic scale.
