ABSTRACT
Large and mesoscale geophysical flows in the ocean and the atmosphere are turbulent, and are characterized by the dominance of the Earth’s rotation. In such conditions, the vorticity fluctuations generated by the flow are just small perturbations to the planetary vorticity. To us, however, who participate in the spinning motion of the planet, these small fluctuations appear in their full power as the flow patterns that characterize the dynamics of the ocean and the atmosphere.
