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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Model experiments carried out by differential heating of a fluid in a flat  rotating pan.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Such experiments, by establishing similarity with the [[atmosphere]] through such nondimensional  parameters as the [[Rossby number]], [[Taylor number]], etc., have reproduced many important features  of the [[general circulation]] and of smaller scales of atmospheric motion. <br/>''See'' [[Rossby regime]].</div><br/> </div><div class="reference">Fultz, D. 1951. Compendium of Meteorology. 1235&ndash;1248. </div><br/>
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Model experiments carried out by differential heating of a fluid in a flat rotating pan.

Such experiments, by establishing similarity with the atmosphere through such nondimensional parameters as the Rossby number, Taylor number, etc., have reproduced many important features of the general circulation and of smaller scales of atmospheric motion.
See Rossby regime.
Fultz, D. 1951. Compendium of Meteorology. 1235–1248.

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