Variations in Wave Energy and Amplitudes along the Energy Dispersion Paths of Nonstationary Barotropic Rossby Waves

The variations in the wave energy and the amplitude along the energy dispersion paths of the barotropic Rossby waves in zonally symmetric basic flow are studied by solving the wave energy equation,which expresses that the wave energy variability is determined by the divergence of the group velocity and the energy budget from the basic flow.The results suggest that both the wave energy and the amplitude of a leading wave increase significantly in the propagating region that is located south of the jet axis and enclosed by a southern critical line and a northern turning latitude.The leading wave gains the barotropic energy from the basic flow by eddy activities.The amplitude continuously climbs up a peak at the turning latitude due to increasing wave energy and enlarging horizontal scale(shrinking total wavenumber).Both the wave energy and the amplitude eventually decrease when the trailing wave continuously approaches southward to the critical line.The trailing wave decays and its energy is continuously absorbed by the basic flow.Furthermore,both the wave energy and the amplitude oscillate with a limited range in the propagating region that is located near the jet axis and enclosed by two turning latitudes.Both the leading and trailing waves neither develop nor decay significantly.The jet works as a waveguide to allow the waves to propagate a long distance.     

Some Aspects of the Characteristics of Monsoon Disturbances Using a Combined Barotropic－Baroclinic Model

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Rossby wave propagation in a barotropic atmosphere

The ideas of ray tracing from geometrical optics and wave propagation in a slowly varying medium are applied to Rossby waves propagating in a barotropic atmosphere.The propagation of low-frequency Rossby waves in a zonally symmetric basic state is compared with that for stationary waves presented by Hoskins and Karoly (1981). These ideas are then used to study the propagation of Rossby waves in a basic state with zonally varying middle latitude or low latitude jets. Conditions which allow cross-equatorial wave propagation are presented. For a zonally varying middle latitude jet, there is weak wave convergence in regions of decreasing jet speed, However, this is not sufficient to explain the enhanced wave amplitude found in numerical-model experiments using a zonally varying basic state.     

青藏高原复杂下垫面能量和水分循环季节变化特征分析

为深入认识青藏高原能量和水分循环季节变化,利用GSWP(Global Soil Wetness Project)、GLDAS(Global Land Data Assimilation System)、AMSR-E(Advance Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS)土壤湿度以及台站观测资料等多种数据,采用滑动t检验初步分析高原下垫面各物理量季节变化特征。结果表明:各物理量季节变化特征明显且联系密切。高原下垫面净短波辐射和感热通量在1月中旬显著开始增加,5~6月达到全年最高值。净长波辐射5月表现为高值,夏季表现为低值。地表潜热通量在1月显著开始增加,在夏季达到全年最高值。表层土壤3月开始输送热量到大气,9月大气开始向土壤表层传递热量;融雪3~5月加快,雪盖减少。降水和1 cm植被含水量在2月显著开始增加,1 cm土壤显著开始加湿,5~6月降水陡增,1 cm土壤湿度表现为峰值。1 cm植被含水量、植被蒸腾、总蒸散与降水在7~8月达全年最高值,1 cm土壤湿度在7月表出现为谷值,9月达全年第二峰值。10月下垫面温度转冷后,雪盖增加,土壤湿度逐渐减小。     

Tropical Cyclone Energy Dispersion and Possible Self Maintenance Mechanism of the Synoptic Scale Wave Trains

The interaction between tropical cyclone (TC) and the large-scale mean flows such as the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is investigated using a three-dimensional primitive equation model. Once a TC develops in the vicinity of the ITCZ region where satisfies both barotropic and baroclinic instabilities, the southeastward energy dispersion from the TC may disturb the ITCZ and thus help its breakdown. Cumulus convection can be organized in the region of cyclonic circulation, and the interaction between convective heating and the perturbation circulation may enhance the development of the waves, leading to the generation of a new tropical cyclone to the east. While the TC moves to the high latitude, the ITCZ will reform. Though repeating of this process, a synoptic-scale wave train oriented in the northwest-southeast direction can be generated and self-maintained. The results suggest that the mutual interaction among the low-frequency background flow, wave train pattern and TCs provides a possible mechanism for the origin of the summer synoptic scale wave train pattern over the western North Pacific.     

大气中的包络Rossby孤立波——纬度效应的作用

本文进一步对旋转正压大气中的包络Rossby孤立波进行了研究，结果发现当Rossby波的波数m（m为纬向波数）满足1≤m≤2时，旋转正压大气中才存在包络Rossby孤立波，并且只有m＝2的包络Rossby孤立波才具有阻塞高压的结构。我们还对这种m＝２的包络Rossby孤立波随纬度变化的持续性进行了计算，得到了许多结果。     

1998年南海、孟加拉湾夏季风期间动能收支特征

该文采用1998年加密观测资料经同化处理后得到的客观分析格点资料, 对南海地区和孟加拉湾地区的动能收支进行了诊断分析和对比, 得出: B区夏季风爆发, 其850 hPa区域平均总动能表现为爆发性增长, C区则表现为一个逐步增长的过程.越赤道气流通过南边界的动能输送对B区夏季风建立贡献很大, 西边界动能输入对C区夏季风建立也起了十分显著的作用.季风盛行期, B区夏季风动能的发展维持主要是动能水平通量散度的贡献, 其中西边界动能的流入贡献最大, 孟加拉湾夏季风的变化主要为印度季风影响所致; C区夏季风动能主要是依靠其区域内动能制造来维持.对于850 hPa层, B区主要通过斜压过程制造动能, 正压过程破坏更多的动能, C区主要是正压过程制造动能.两区对流层高层都为动能主要流出区, 而对流层低层, B区为动能流入区, C区为动能流出区.     

大气中40—60天低频振荡形成的数值试验

观测资料的分析表明,40—60天的低频振荡,除了在赤道附近有向东的传播外,在副热带和高纬度带还存在向西传播的现象.本文利用正压原始方程的谱模式,加以与运动(辐散)相联系的强迫(相当于加热场),模拟这类低频振荡发现有两类波存在:一类是周期约为10—20天向东传播的行星波,另一类是周期为40—60天向西传播的低频波,它是前一类行星波的波包相速度,每天5—6经度,纬向波数为1.这类低频波的出现可能是行星波与加热场非线性相互作用的结果. 这里之所以没有得到东传的40—60天的低频波,可能是由于模式格点较疏,使赤道Kelvin波不能明显激发出来.     

北大西洋风暴轴高低空分布及其能量诊断

利用1979~2013年NCEP再分析数据,通过经验正交分解对比了前冬时期北大西洋风暴轴的高低空分布,并用涡动动能(Eddy Kinetic Energy,EKE)方程对风暴轴高低空分布型差异进行了诊断。研究结果表明:上层和下层第一空间分布型差异巨大,对流层下层风暴轴中心偏北,靠近极地,而上层风暴轴中心偏西南,靠近北美沿岸。EKE方程诊断结果表明:正压转换项在高低空符号相反,导致了EKE在上、下层分布出现显著差异,即上层正压转换项为负,在扰动发展中起能量耗散作用,而下层正压转换项为正,且极大值区域对应下层EKE极大值区域,为风暴轴下层向极区域增强的主要原因。而斜压转换和非地转位势通量散度在上层均为正,且远大于下层,为风暴轴上层涡动能量维持的原因,也从涡动能量收支上解释了风暴轴的主体出现在上层。     

夏季东亚阻塞高压形成维持的波数域动能分析

用波数域动能方程分析了1986年夏季东亚阻塞高压的形成、维持和衰退过程。发现该夏季代表阻塞高压的波动是5波（长波）,而不是2波（超长波）。在阻高形成和维持阶段,波与波非线性相互作用向5波输送动能,使5波动能增大;而波与平均流的相互作用则使5波动能减小。在阻高维持阶段,有效位能向5波转换动能,维持阻高。波与平均流的相互作用却使5波维持。在阻高衰退阶段则完全相反,波与波相互作用项以及有效位能与动能转换项均为负值,使5波动能变小,阻高衰退。而波与平均流相互作用,却使高纬西风减小,有利阻高维持。     

青藏高原大地形高度变化对东亚地区定常扰动能源转换的影响

利用CAM3（Community Atmosphere Model version 3）模式和ERA-Interim再分析数据研究了对流层中青藏高原大地形对东亚地区定常扰动能量源的影响。在冬季对流层中东亚地区的定常扰动的能量源地主要有两个,分别是高原北部的东亚地区和高原下游的西太平洋地区。高原高度增加时,对流层整层东亚地区斜压发展随高原高度增高而减弱,西太平洋地区斜压发展增强。定常扰动的正压发展与斜压发展的位置相似,但是明显的要比定常扰动的斜压发展弱。随着高原高度升高,在对流层中高原北部的东亚地区正压发展先减弱后增强,而在高原下游的西太平洋地区随高原高度增高正压发展一直增强。在冬季对流层中定常扰动的总能量发展与定常扰动的斜压发展一致,这样的发展趋势说明了冬季东亚地区和西太平洋地区定常扰动在对流层中的能量发展主要是斜压性引起的。     

台风麦莎登陆后粘性摩擦对正压特征波动的影响

本文推导出柱坐标系下含有粘性摩擦项的正压方程组。选取2005年台风麦莎登陆浙江过程中的8月6日15时的WRF(Weather Research and Forecasting)模式输出资料,利用数值差分方法对该正压方程组求特征波解,分析粘性摩擦对台风麦莎内部正压特征波动的影响。结果表明,重力惯性外波在粘性摩擦的影响下,最不稳定波的波数为45左右,波动在摩擦的影响下衰减,波动沿逆时针传播,在半径1000 km处,1波波速为47.43 m/s,在半径r>800 km的范围内,径向风分量扰动加大,辐合辐散运动增强;而摩擦影响下的涡旋Rossby波,2波最不稳定,波动增长率减小,在半径r=200 km处波动相速度为4.282~29.172 m/s,扰动涡度大值区范围减小,涡旋Rossby波的波动区域沿着径向向台风中心收缩。分析包含所有波动时,考虑摩擦后,最不稳定波数在45左右且波动衰减,1波波速在r=1000 km处(外螺旋雨带)为26.374 m/s;在半径r=200 km(内螺旋雨带)为5.275 m/s,考虑径向基本气流后,最不稳定波的波数保持不变,半径r=1000 km处的波速增加为30.324 m/s,r=200 km(内螺旋雨带)处波速为6.065 m/s,摩擦使得径向风分量扰动明显增大,辐合辐散运动加强。     

The Propagation of Disturbances Excited by Low-Frequency Oscillations in the Tropics

The propagation of disturbances excited by low-frequency oscillations in the tropics is investigated by applying the theory of wave packet dynamics. For simplicity, a linearized barotropic model is adopted and the zonal circulation is taken as basic current. Suppose that the disturbances or waves are superimposed on jet-like westerly basic cur-rent and excited by the forcing in the tropics. We have (1) only the eastward propagating (m>0, n>0 and σ>0) low-frequency disturbances and the stationary (σ = 0) waves can propagate into the middle and high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere; the others, such as the westward propagating low-frequency wave (m>0, n<0, σ<0) and the high-frequency waves, are restricted only in the vicinity of source region; (2) a stationary wave (σ = 0) reaches a given latitude even more quickly than some low-frequency ones (σ>0) due to the fact that the group velocity of stationary wave is larger; (3) there is a whole wave train excited by the forcing in the tropics and extended into the middle and high latitudes, if the amplitude of the source is independent on time, especially, the low-frequency wave (σ > 0) is of travelling type propagating along the ray; (4) if the source lasts only for an interval of time, namely, its amplitude also has the character of low-frequency oscillation, the excited wave train is not always a whole one, but is restricted in the vicinity of source region in the beginning, extended from the source region to the middle and high latitudes in its saturated stage, after that it gradually becomes weaker and weaker and is detectable only in some area at high latitude, and eventually disappears. Undoubtedly, case (4) is closer to the reality, even though case (3) gives a more impressive wavy pattern.     

北半球准定常行星波气候平均态的资料分析和数值模拟

利用NCEP/NCAR再分析资料和大气环流模式(CCSR/NIES AGCM Ver 5.6),对北半球准定常行星波的气候平均态分布进行分析和模拟.再分析资料分析的结果表明:北半球冬季,准定常行星波沿两支波导向上传播,其中一支在对流层上层转向中低纬度传播,另外一支折向高纬度,通过极地波导上传到平流层.其中,1波和2波可以上传到平流层,因而其振幅分布除在中低纬的对流层上层出现一个次大值外,在高纬度平流层中上层会出现一个最大值,3波则主要限制在对流层,其振幅分布除在副热带对流层上层出现一个次大值外,最大值出现在中纬度对流层上层.北半球夏季,整个平流层为东风环流,极地波导不存在,行星波不能上传到平流层,在对流层活动也较弱,1波、2波、3波的传播情况大致相似,表现为在对流层上层由中纬度向赤道地区的传播.相应的振幅分布是,对1波和2波而言,最大值出现在中低纬对流层顶附近,同时在中高纬对流层上层出现一个次大值,而3波的振幅分布正好相反,最大值出现在中高纬对流层上层,次大值则在中低纬对流层顶附近.利用大气环流模式进行的数值模拟表明,模式可以比较好地模拟冬夏季准定常行星波的传播路径,但模拟的北半球冬季沿极地波导向平流层的传播明显偏弱,其结果是对1波、2波而言,高纬度平流层中上层的振幅最大值明显小于再分析资料的数值.文中还讨论了数值模拟与资料分析中行星波的差异可能对大气环流模拟的影响.     

Generation of internal waves over a shelf

Experiments are performed in a 13-m cylindrical tank to study the generation of interfacial internal waves by barotropic sinusoidal waves passing over a slope. At each tidal cycle, there are two waves generated, one propagating onshore and the other propagating offshore. The amplitude of the waves increases with increasing forcing and evolves as nonlinear waves if the shelf width is smaller than the wavelength of the baroclinic tide. Rotation does not modify the generating mechanism but the amplitude of the generated waves decreases with increasing rotation rate; also no internal waves are generated when the forcing period is larger than the inertial period, and at high rotation rate, there are only dispersive waves propagating from the shelf break region. The experiments covered a large range of internal Froude number, Rossby number and temporal Rossby number and compare well with in situ observations.     

Normal mode theory of lee cyclogenesis and the initial value problem

Summary An initial value problem is proposed to study the influence of mountains upon atmospheric flows. The normal mode, quasigeostrophic theory of lee cyclogenesis is revisited; in order to model Alpine cyclogenesis, the flow, upon which the mountain acts, should represent a cyclone wave propagating eastward in a sheared zonal current. Two different models are considered in order to describe cyclone waves: an unstable Eady normal mode and a finite amplitude, neutral Rossby mode in the two layer model. It is shown that the topographic modifications proper of normal modes emerge very rapidly from the integration of the initial value problem. It is also shown that an enhanced deepening of the upper level trough can occur when finite amplitude effects are taken into account.With 8 Figures     

亚洲季风变动与大气正压/斜压运动动能变化的气候特征

使用ＮＣＥＰ／ＮＣＡＲ４０年（１９５８～１９９７年）月平均再分析资料,通过动力学论断研究了大气斜压／正压运动动能的变化及其相互转换,分析了亚洲季风变动与这两种动能变化的联系。指出：季风区大气运动动能的组成和变化具有独特的特征。冬季风时期大气斜压运动动能与正压运动动能具有正相关线性关系,斜压运动能向正压运动动能转换;春、秋季无论是东亚还是印度季风区斜压运动动能与正压运动动能之间转换都处于极小值,只是     

偶极子移动的三种类型

用β平面准地转正压模式,实施了１８组积分时间为４至６个模式日的试验。从偏离偶极子解析解的流型启动,得到了偶极子移动的３种类型,即东进型、西进型和经向型。在一定的参数集合,在涡旋对总体上向外频散能量的同时,偶极子气旋涡旋的强度不但不随时间衰减,而且可以增强。     

Nonlinear energy and enstrophy transfers in a realistically stratified ocean

We discuss the nonlinear transfers possible in a quasigeostrophic fluid with a basic stratification taken from oceanic data. The energy and enstrophy conservation laws imply a cascade of energy to larger total scale (including both the horizontal scale, defined as wavelength/2π, and the deformation radius of the vertical mode). The triplet interactions among components with various horizontal scales and vertical structures, represented by the vertical mode numbers, are considered in detail for exchanges involving the barotropic and first three baroclinic modes. The initial transfer rates from one component into the other two are estimated and the most rapid transfers described as a function of the initial scale and mode number. These results suggest that barotropic motions will cascade to larger-scale barotropic motions, first baroclinic small-scale motions will transfer to first baroclinic larger scales, and first baroclinic large-scale motions will cascade to barotropic and first baroclinic motions at the deformation scale. Second and third mode motions prefer to transfer energy into small-scale (second or third mode deformation radius) first and third baroclinic mode motions.We also show the relationship of these triplet interactions to Rossby wave instabilities and resonant triads. For the latter motions, the weakness of the nonlinearity adds additional constraints which impty that the motions will tend to become zonal.     

季风指数及其年际变化II·南海夏季风分量动能强度指数及其年际变化

计算了各年南海夏季风建立前后流场的场相似度、场比幅、季风分量动能强度指数和突变度。指出按变差度最大或相似度绝对值最小及其变化最陡以及比幅最小,可客观定量地定出季风来临的预兆日期,在大多年份该日期比用天气气候学方法得到的季风来临(爆发)日期要早些,且两者有较好正相关。绝大多数年份季风建立时有环流突变发生,但也有少数年份呈调和变化或二次突变。季风分量动能强度指数能够反映各年南海夏季风建立后的强度。最后分析指出,南海850 hPa夏季风的前兆日期,突变度和强度指数都有明显的年际和年代际变化。