Exercise 4

Use the drop-down list below to select True or False for each of the "completing statements" below, then click DONE. The correct answers will appear in the first boxes to the left. Thinking of features of increasing size from small to large scale, the Rossby radius of deformation (L_R)...
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		a) is the scale at which rotation becomes less important than buoyancy.
		b) is the size beyond which features tend to be rotational in character and long-lived.
		c) is the scale at which rotation becomes as important as buoyancy.
		d) is the size where features larger than this are usually dispersed by gravity waves.
		e) increases proportionally with the depth [vertical size] of the disturbance.
		f) increases with increasing stability.