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Tests related to Rossby Wave Source analysis

All data on this page from ERA-Interim experiment
Sample days 20151222 (left) and 20161022 (right)
variables in alphabetical order, color bars/scales differ

following Sardeshmukh and Hoskins 1998
Rossby wave source terms are minus absolute vorticity times divergence and
minus div winds dot-product gradient absolute vorticity, respectively.