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tropical instability wave: a standalone construct

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Physical oceanography

westward-propagating cusp-shaped waves with periods of weeks along the equatorial cold tongue fronts in the Pacific and Atlantic.

In physical oceanography, tropical instability wave refers to westward-propagating cusp-shaped waves with periods of weeks along the equatorial cold tongue fronts in the Pacific and Atlantic. This meaning comes from Legeckis (1977) in Science.[1]

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  1. Legeckis, R. (1977). Long Waves in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean: A View from a Geostationary Satellite. Science, 197(4309), 1179-1181. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.197.4309.1179

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