Usually means: Oceanic wave, temperature and pressure.
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  1. Kelvin wave: Wiktionary
  2. Kelvin Wave, Kelvin wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Kelvin wave: Encyclopedia

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  1. Kelvin Wave: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. KELVIN WAVE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Kelvin wave)

noun:  (meteorology, oceanography) A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.
noun:  A long-scale perturbation mode of a vortex in superfluid dynamics.

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