The rains have returned with a vengeance little more than a week after the Bureau of Meteorology declared a flood-weary nation ... Weather systems driven by Rossby waves triggered the recent ...

Some of the most important waves are called Kelvin waves and equatorial Rossby waves. Kelvin waves are centered around the equator, propagate to the east, and take between 2.5 and 17 days to ...

This convection releases heat aloft, which then gives way to something scientists call atmospheric Rossby waves. Just as ocean waves move through the sea, atmospheric Rossby waves move through ...