Rotating Shallow Water Modeling Plasma Transport by Drift Vortices Across a Magnetic Field

An experimental study of the Rossby vortex meridional drift on the rotating shallow water has been carried out. Owing to the stringent physical analogy between the Rossby vortices and drift vortices in the magnetized plasma, the results obtained have allowed one to make a conclusion that the transport rate of the plasma, trapped by the drift vortices, across the magnetic field is equivalent to the "giro-Bohm" diffusion coefficient. (There is rather convincing evidence of this conclusion − see below).