ESS227
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Depth and
Latitude
•The Rossby potential vorticity conservation law indicates that in a barotropic fluid, a change in the depth is dynamically analogous to a change in the Coriolis parameter.
•Therefore, in a barotropic fluid, a decrease of depth with increasing latitude has the same effect on the relative vorticity as the increase of the Coriolis force with latitude.
