The barotropic Rossby waves with topography on the earth’s δ-surface
AbstractThe Rossby solitary waves in the barotropic vorticity model which contains the topography on the earth’s δ-surface is investigated. First, applying scale analysis method, obtained the generalized quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation (QGPVE). Using The Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) theory, the evolution equation of Rossby waves is the variable-coefficient Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation for the barotropic atmospheric model. In order to study the Rossby waves structural change to exist in some basic flow and topography on the δ-surface approximation, the variable coefficient of KdV equation must be explicitly, Chebyshev polynomials is used to solve a Sturm-Liouville-type eigenvalue problem and the eigenvalue Rossby waves, these solutions show that the parameter δ usually plays the stable part in Rossby waves and slow down the growing or decaying of Rossby waves with the parameter β.