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 ...

Additionally, extreme weather events can occur at the same time over different places, because of large-scale atmospheric waves called “Rossby waves”, which are a naturally occurring ...

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 ...