Chains of Rossby solitons and gradient solitons
Mikhailovskii A. B. , Kudashev V. R. , Lakhin V. P. , Mikhailovskaya L. A. , Smolyakov A. I. , Shishkov S. Yu.
The two-dimensional nonlinear equation — φ + φ 2 = 0, which describes Rossby waves and nonlinear drift waves in a plasma in a magnetic field, has an approximate solution consisting of an infinite chain of solitons that are localized in the transverse direction.