Response to reviewers

We would like to thank both reviewers for their insightful comments and for their time. There were many editorial and typographic errors in the original manuscript which the reviewers pointed out and have been fixed, in the future closer attention to detail before submission will be paid. Reviewer 1’s comment asking us to consider potential energy has helped strengthen the results in the Geostrophic State section and helped show the effect that the initially leftward propagating wave has on the geostrophic state. This new result is extremely relevant to physical experiments and would not have been noticed without this comment. Reviewer 2’s comments about the nonlinear effects helped us develop a new section devoted to these effects. The new results indicate significant nonlinear effects in both the geostrophic state and the ejected waves for moderate to high Rossby numbers. They also provide a clearer connection to traditional nonlinear wave theory. We would like to note that significant changes to both the structure and details of the manuscript have been made and as such listing every change would be extremely difficult. In the response to each reviewer comment we have tried to indicate where the appropriate change has been made in the new manuscript. All of the comments provided were greatly appreciated and addressing them has significantly strengthened the manuscript.