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Using satellite altimetry measurement data for 1993–2013, we study the spectral characteristics of Rossby waves in the Northwestern Pacific (25°–50° N, 140°–180° E). For each latitude degree, we draw integral plots of spectral power density calculated with a two-dimensional Fourier transform (2D-FFT). We compare the dispersion equations of Rossby waves calculated from the WKB-approximation and an approximation of a two-layer ocean model with the empirical velocities determined by the slope of isopleths by the Radon method; also, we compare the dispersion equations with the spectral distributions of level variations. It is shown that the main energy of Rossby waves in the Northwestern Pacific corresponds to the first baroclinic mode. At almost all latitudes, there is good agreement between the empirical phase velocities calculated by isopleths by the Radon method and the theoretical values; also, the spectral peaks correspond to graphs of the dispersion equations for the first baroclinic mode Rossby waves, except for the Kuroshio region, where some peaks correspond to the second mode.
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Original Russian Text © T.V. Belonenko, A.A. Kubrjakov, S.V. Stanichny, 2016, published in Issledovanie Zemli iz Kosmosa, 2016, No. 1–2, pp. 43–52.
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Belonenko, T.V., Kubrjakov, A.A. & Stanichny, S.V. Spectral characteristics of Rossby waves in the Northwestern Pacific based on satellite altimetry. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 52, 920–928 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433816090073
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