Abstract: | The behaviour of an isolated synoptic eddy on the -plane in the field of a plane Rossby wave is reported. As is shown, the eddy exchanges its energy intensively with Rossby waves having zero frequency in the frame of axes moving with the eddy. If the Rossby wave has an amplitude exceeding some critical value, a transition from average translational eddy motion along the meridian to oscillations in the vicinity of the equilibrium latitude is possible.Translated by Mikhail M. Trufanov. UDK 551.465.535:551.466. |