Abstract: The solitary Rossby waves in the nonuniformed zonal flows in the barotropic atmosphere were studied. The Korteweg-de Vries equation or the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation describing the wave evolution by introducing multiple-scale variables are obtained. Streamline partterns accompanying these waves are computed respectively in different zonal currents. Three kinds streamline patterns are obtained:the subtropical high pattern, the blocking high pattern and the dipole pattern. For the subtropical high pattern, we obtained that its evolution is the same as that of the actual subtropical high. For the later two kinds, when the wind speed and shear increase, their intensities are strengthed.