Rossby wave

Rossby wave - type of inertial wave in the atmospheres and oceans of planets that largely owe their properties to rotation of the planet. Article “Rossby wave” in English Wikipedia has 48.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 21 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Rossby wave”, its content was written by 136 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 480 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 389 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1665 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19523 in February 2021
• Global: #29588 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56850 in February 2012
• Global: #86629 in January 2014

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Rossby wave		48.8712
2	German (de) Rossby-Welle		35.1869
3	Ukrainian (uk) Хвилі Россбі		29.8982
4	Indonesian (id) Gelombang Rossby		24.9089
5	Italian (it) Onda di Rossby		24.3632
6	Arabic (ar) أمواج روسبي		23.7087
7	Finnish (fi) Rossby-aalto		22.999
8	French (fr) Onde de Rossby		21.9106
9	Polish (pl) Fale Rossby’ego		20.6524
10	Estonian (et) Rossby lained		20.4583

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rossby wave" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rossby wave		1 048 320
2	German (de) Rossby-Welle		216 474
3	Russian (ru) Волны Россби		103 737
4	Japanese (ja) ロスビー波		87 830
5	Italian (it) Onda di Rossby		71 891
6	French (fr) Onde de Rossby		70 978
7	Spanish (es) Onda de Rossby		61 391
8	Chinese (zh) 罗斯贝波		59 897
9	Polish (pl) Fale Rossby’ego		30 970
10	Portuguese (pt) Onda de Rossby		25 009

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rossby wave" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rossby wave		4 005
2	German (de) Rossby-Welle		517
3	Russian (ru) Волны Россби		426
4	Chinese (zh) 罗斯贝波		418
5	Japanese (ja) ロスビー波		363
6	French (fr) Onde de Rossby		283
7	Italian (it) Onda di Rossby		255
8	Spanish (es) Onda de Rossby		203
9	Polish (pl) Fale Rossby’ego		124
10	Korean (ko) 로스비 파동		102

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Rossby wave" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rossby wave		136
2	German (de) Rossby-Welle		77
3	French (fr) Onde de Rossby		47
4	Italian (it) Onda di Rossby		31
5	Norwegian (no) Rossbybølge		23
6	Dutch (nl) Rossby-golf		21
7	Spanish (es) Onda de Rossby		20
8	Polish (pl) Fale Rossby’ego		19
9	Japanese (ja) ロスビー波		16
10	Chinese (zh) 罗斯贝波		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Rossby wave" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Хвилі Россбі		2
2	Arabic (ar) أمواج روسبي		1
3	German (de) Rossby-Welle		1
4	Spanish (es) Onda de Rossby		1
5	Hebrew (he) גל רוסבי		1
6	Japanese (ja) ロスビー波		1
7	Korean (ko) 로스비 파동		1
8	Czech (cs) Rossbyho vlna		0
9	English (en) Rossby wave		0
10	Estonian (et) Rossby lained		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Rossby wave" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rossby wave		389
2	Portuguese (pt) Onda de Rossby		271
3	French (fr) Onde de Rossby		157
4	Persian (fa) موج راسبی		146
5	Chinese (zh) 罗斯贝波		119
6	Arabic (ar) أمواج روسبي		112
7	Ukrainian (uk) Хвилі Россбі		111
8	German (de) Rossby-Welle		57
9	Italian (it) Onda di Rossby		44
10	Indonesian (id) Gelombang Rossby		41

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أمواج روسبي
cs	Czech Rossbyho vlna
de	German Rossby-Welle
en	English Rossby wave
es	Spanish Onda de Rossby
et	Estonian Rossby lained
fa	Persian موج راسبی
fi	Finnish Rossby-aalto
fr	French Onde de Rossby
he	Hebrew גל רוסבי
id	Indonesian Gelombang Rossby
it	Italian Onda di Rossby
ja	Japanese ロスビー波
ko	Korean 로스비 파동
lt	Lithuanian Rosbio bangos
nl	Dutch Rossby-golf
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Rossbybølgje
no	Norwegian Rossbybølge
pl	Polish Fale Rossby’ego
pt	Portuguese Onda de Rossby
ru	Russian Волны Россби
sv	Swedish Rossbyvåg
uk	Ukrainian Хвилі Россбі
zh	Chinese 罗斯贝波

Best Rank

English: #56850 02.2012

Global: #86629 01.2014

Best Rank

English: #19523 02.2021

Global: #29588 09.2012

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