Rossby autosoliton
Antipov S. V., Nezlin M. V., Trubnikov A. S.
A new nonlinear physical entity, a "Rossby autosoliton," has been produced experimentally. It is an undamped, solitary, drifting, anticyclonic vortex which self-organizes in oppositely directed streams in rotating shallow water. It may be thought of as a steady-state soliton model of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, developed experimentally for the first time.
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