Plane atmospheric wave

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plane atmospheric wave[edit | edit source]

An atmospheric wave represented in two-dimensional rectangular Cartesian coordinates, in contrast to a wave considered on the spherical earth.


Generally, any pattern with some roughly identifiable periodicity in time and/ or space.

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