Laboratory modeling of topographic Rossby normal modes

The physical modeling of topographic Rossby normal modes carried out at the “Coriolis” Rotating Platform (Grenoble), is presented. The basic feature of the bottom topography is a linear slope of 4.3 m×2 m delimited by two lateral walls. Since the studied motions are essentially barotropic, homogeneous water was used. Unsheared currents were generated by a simple movement of a wavemaker located in front of the topographic barrier. The conservation of potential vorticity for the currents flowing onto the channel slope produced Rossby waves: reflections at the lateral boundaries then led to the formation of propagating barotropic Rossby normal modes, whose frequencies and spatial structures were selected by the physical system. The currents were measured through the correlation imaging velocimetry (CIV) method, which allowed an extremely detailed synoptic map of the horizontal velocities in an area (13 m²) including the slope to be obtained every 30 s.A variety of experiments were performed in order to provide a complete process study in which the effect of different channel lengths and rotation periods could be tested. Two different lengths of the linear slope, 4.3 and 3.3 m, and rotation periods ranging from 30 to 50 s were considered. The qualitative analysis of the 2D current patterns, and the good agreement found between the measured eigenperiods and the periods obtained by means of a simple analytical model, show that in all cases the first Rossby normal mode was generated. Moreover, numerical simulations based on the shallow-water equations, for a geometry and paddle movements that match closely the experimental setup, allow to calibrate the analytical model and provide useful information on a discrepancy found between experimental and analytical eigenperiods due to an oscillation of the normal mode trajectory.     

切变气流中地形强迫激发的非线性长波

经推导得到了包括地形和耗散的ＦＫｄＶ－Ｂｕｒｇｅｒｓ方程,利用数值解讨论了地表强迫激发的弧波演变以及移动性孤波与地形的相互作用,结果显示,对于α〉０或α〈０,不论是在气旋式切变气流还是反气旋式切变气流中,地形都能在强迫激发出定常孤波,在其下游产生调制椭圆余弦波列的背风波,当α＝０时,在反气旋式切变气流中强迫区产生的是大振幅定常孤波,气旋式切变气流中强迫区产生的是复杂的非定常孤波,地形强迫产生的ｍ＝     

A numerical method for solving the evolution equation of solitary Rossby waves on a weak shear

In this paper an evolution equation in integral-differential form for finite amplitude Rossby waves on a weak shear is presented and an efficient method for its numerical solution is set up. It is shown that a propa-gation of solitary wave is possible whenever a proper weak shear in basic flows acts with the nonlinear effects and dispersion of the media, both in the atmosphere and in the ocean. To test the numerical method for solving the evolution equation, a series of experiments are carried out. The results indicate that the solitary solutions do exist and interact with each other in quite a succinct, manner. Therefore the method is successful and efficient for solving initial value problems of the above equation. The time decoupling problem arising in the numerical scheme and the related filtering technique are discussed. A variety of interesting phenomena such as the interaction of solitary Rossby waves, damping, dispersion and the development of nonlinear wave train are numerically studied.     

局地热力强迫与准定常大振幅扰动的形成

文中导得了包括热力强迫和耗散的非线性强迫ＫｄＶ－Ｂｕｒｇｅｒｓ方程,并作了数值求解。计算结果表明,热力强迫和耗散是孤波质量和能量变化的主要原因,耗散使孤波质量能量随时间指数衰减;热力强迫与地形一样,都能在强迫区产生定常孤波,但前者产生的上游扰动振幅更大,而后者产生的下游扰动更为明显;加热和地形一样都能使孤波发生位相漂移,减小其移速,阻挡孤波的移动,从而增加与孤波的相互作用时间;适当大小的耗散与热力强迫的组合迫使移动性孤波在强迫区附近来回振荡,大大增加与热力强迫的相互作用时间;在耗散与热力强迫同时存在的非线性系统中,移动性孤波与热力强迫的相互作用可能是产生阻塞等长生命周期的局地准定常系统的重要因子。     

INFLUENCES OF TOPOGRAPHY ON BAROCLINIC SOLITARY ROSSBY WAVES IN A MULTILEVEL MODEL

The KdV equation with topography included in an N-level model is derived. It is shown that if the topography ex-ists. the KdV equation may describe the solitary Rossby waves in the case of basic current without vertical shear, and itis no necessary to introduce the MKdV equation. The results of calculations show that the change of horizontal shearpattern of basic flow may cause an important change of the streamline pattern of the solitary waves with the oddmeridional wavenumber m, and has no effect for the even meridional wavenumber m. The vertical shear increases thesteepness of the barotropic solitary modes, and it has a complicated effect on the baroclinic modes. The influences oftopographic slope on the solitary waves are very great. The southern and northern slopes of topography may cause dif-ferent solitary wave patterns, with the effect of northern slope greater. The effect of Froude number on the solitarywaves is generally to steepen the solitary waves, however, the effect also depends on the meridional wavenumber m andthe modes of solitary wave.     

中性和不稳定层结大气的孤立行波精确解

通过研究二维准动量无辐散、无摩擦层结大气非线性方程组的行波解问题证明，非线性行波解的本质属性是由参数ｂ的符号性质决定的。当ｂ＞０时，为周期解，其周期与相应的线性周期解的周期相等；当ｂ≤０时，为孤立波解。给出了一般行波解的解析表达式。并细致地研究了中性和不稳定层结大气中的孤立行波的特征，发现中性和不稳定层结大气中存在具有类似于飑线结构特征的孤立波。指出了中性和不稳定层结大气中的一般孤立行波物理量的分布特征。     

热带气旋解析解与数值解的比较

对热带气旋波谱分析正确性的验证进行了讨论。通常可找一个能解析求解的特例,并对该特例求数值解,然后比较两者的结果。在保证解析解正确的前提下,若两者结果不一致,则数值求解肯定有问题。这里给出了热带气旋波谱分析验证的具体步骤,还求得了基流趋于零时热带气旋尺度涡旋中正压原始方程特征值问题的解析解。通过比较解析解和数值解的频率可知,两者的差别并不大,最大相对误差小于10％。这表明数值计算的方案设计和编程至少在基流趋于0时是没有问题的。此时仅存在一对重力惯性波,并得到了其频率方程,其特征函数可用Bessel函数来表示。因该函数是基流趋于0情况下扰动的解,故其不可能再是典型基流下的解。该情形下求取数值解看来是唯一的办法。     

Ultra-wideband radar studies of steep crested waves with scanning laser measurements of wave slope profiles

We report results of ultra wide-band radar sea spike experiments using steep and weakly breaking non-linear water surface features in a wave tank. To generate these features we used a 1 s paddle wave and wind waves for a sequence of wind speeds. A scanning laser was used to measure synchronously the surface slope profile across 12 cm along the wave propagation direction once per radar pulse. A time domain reflectometer (TDR) radar transmitted short horizontally polarized pulses at X-band, several hundred picoseconds long, to give a range resolution of 10 cm. A radar range of 36 cm was digitally sampled so that surface feature echoes could be tracked through the area continuously with 5 ms temporal resolution with each instrument. We report results considering the wave slope component in the propagation direction and the corresponding curvature component. For the conditions studied, two types of features which produce sea spike radar echoes were generated–a non-linear feature near the crest front of the wind wave, caused by extreme steepening as a result of the passage of the paddle wave, and a steepened blocked wind wave in the trough of the paddle wave, caused by the local orbital current of the 1 s wave being nearly equal to and opposite the phase velocity of the wind wave.     

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。     

能量频散对台风结构和移动的作用

本文用双Ｆｏｕｒｉｅｒ展开的解析方法和β平面准地转正压模式数值试验的方法，研究了台风涡旋能量频散及其对台风路径的影响问题。解析与数值试验的结果一致地表明，由于能量频散，在台风中心以东方向形成了一个低－高－低值系统的波列。三组数值试验的结果表明，波列中的高值系统对台风的结构和移行具有明显的影响。     

Atmospheric Disturbances that Generate Intermittent Turbulence in Nocturnal Boundary Layers

Using the unprecedented observational facilities deployed duringthe 1999 Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study (CASES-99),we found three distinct turbulent events on the night of 18October 1999. These events resulted from a density current,solitary wave, and internal gravity wave, respectively. Our studyfocuses on the turbulence intermittency generated by the solitarywave and internal gravity wave, and intermittent turbulenceepisodes associated with pressure change and wind direction shiftsadjacent to the ground. Both the solitary and internal gravitywaves propagated horizontally and downward. During the passage ofboth the solitary and internal gravity waves, local thermal andshear instabilities were generated as cold air was pushed abovewarm air and wind gusts reached to the ground. These thermal andshear instabilities triggered turbulent mixing events. Inaddition, strong vertical acceleration associated with thesolitary wave led to large non-hydrostatic pressure perturbationsthat were positively correlated with temperature. The directionaldifference between the propagation of the internal gravity waveand the ambient flow led to lateral rolls. These episodic studiesdemonstrate that non-local disturbances are responsible for localthermal and shear instabilities, leading to intermittentturbulence in nocturnal boundary layers. The origin of thesenon-local disturbances needs to be understood to improve mesoscalenumerical model performance.     

外源与孤波的相互作用对阻塞形成的影响

利用准地转涡度方程导出包括外源和摩擦耗散的强迫广义KdV-Burgers方程,分析表明,外源和耗散的存在是孤波质量和能量变化的原因,耗散使孤波质量和能量随时间呈指数减小。数值计算结果指出,移动性孤波和外源的相互作用,使孤波移速减小,振幅增大;在无耗散情况下,失谐参数α较小时,由于孤波迅速离开外源强迫区,因此不利于阻塞的形成;小耗散的存在,迫使相互作用过程中孤波在外源强迫区附近来回振荡传播,大大增加相互作用时间,可能是造成外源区附近局地阻塞的一种重要机制。     

Observations of an internal gravity wave in the lower troposphere at Halley,Antarctica

Observations of internal gravity waves in the stably-stratified atmospheric boundary layer at Halley, Antarctica are presented. These were made on 1 February, 1986 and take the form of temperature measurements from a 30 m mast and a Sodar record. The temperature record shows a clearly defined, dominant wave period of around 11 min. A high-resolution radiosonde ascent made during the period of wave activity exhibits thin layers of low Richardson number and it is suggested that these are regions of dynamic instability where the waves are generated. A linear stability analysis of the radiosonde data supports this idea. It is argued from simple theoretical ideas and by means of a numerical model that only waves with a wavelength greater than a certain critical value are likely to be observed at the surface. The observations are shown to be consistent with this hypothesis.     

阻塞动力学研究进展与展望

简介了大气阻塞动力学在多平衡态理论和外源强迫的共振理论、孤立子及偶极子理论、强迫耗散ＫＤＶ动力学以及天气扰动的激发等几方面理论研究的进展。并对阻塞动力学的研究进行了展望。     

Experimental study of nonlinear wave—wave interaction and white-cap dissipation of wind-generated waves

An experimental scheme was designed to obtain laboratory-scale verification of Hasselmann's nonlinear wave—wave interaction and white-cap dissipation theories. Water wave height and fluctuating air pressure were measured simultaneously in a fixed reference frame as a function of fetch in the Stanford Wind, Water-Wave Research Facility under the conditions of a steady wind and a stationary wave spectrum. All the data were obtained 5 mm above the highest point of the wind waves for five stations (3 m apart on average) and at three wind speeds (7.1, 8.0 and 8.9 m/sec). The wave height and fluctuating pressure were measured by a capacitance wave-height gauge and a crystal pressure transducer, respectively.Based on the experimental results, Hasselmann's nonlinear wave—wave interaction theory appears to be valid. Barnett's approximate parametric equation for calculating the energy transfer of nonlinear wave—wave interaction and Hasselmann's white-capping dissipation model were also verified and appeared to be applicable in the relatively low and intermediate frequency region of a wave spectrum for a normalized fetch range of 100–500. Based on the results of an overall energy balance in a gravity wind-wave spectrum, the nonlinear wave—wave interaction mechanism is shown to play a dominant role in the energy transfer processes after the wave spectrum is generated.     

HEAT SOURCE-INFLUENCED FINITE AMPLITUDE ULTRALONG WAVE*

Discussed in this paper is finite amplitude ultralong wave under the influence of heat sources.The conditions are first investigated for the existence of periodic and solitary ultralong waves of finite amplitude in the Burger model with the aid of Hamilton function and variation of total energy and then the wave analytical expression is formulated by means of the functional approximation and the Hamilton function as the motion invariant in nature.Results show that the finite amplitude ultralong wave influenced by heat sources is unlikely to generate a solitary wave solution and imposes no constraints on horizontal divergence as opposed to the case with the effect of heat sources available.     

HEAT SOURCE-INFLUENCED FINITE AMPLITUDE ULTRALONG WAVE

Discussed in this paper is finite amplitude ultralong wave under the influence of heat sources.The conditions arefirst investigated for the existence of periodic and solitary ultralong waves of finite amplitude in the Burger model withthe aid of Hamilton function and variation of total energy and then the wave analytical expression is formulated bymeans of the functional approximation and the Hamilton function as the motion invariant in nature.Results show thatthe finite amplitude ultralong wave influenced by heat sources is unlikely to generate a solitary wave solution and im-poses no constraints on horizontal divergence as opposed to the case with the effect of heat sources available.     

非均匀地表条件下区域平均径流率的一种参数化方法及其模拟试验

从陆面水文过程的物理机制出发，引进概率统计分布理论，推导出一种由非均匀土壤含水量及降水气候强迫所形成的次网格尺度非均匀径流率的解析表达式，从而将通常的次网格尺度地表径流的参数化方案（mosaic方法）改进为考虑网格区整体非均匀性的统计-动力参数化方案。文中用仿真模拟资料验证了该方案的可靠性与可行性，并作数值试验。结果表明，该方案切实可行。     

On the stability of equivalent modons

In the framework of the equivalent barotropic dynamics, we show that the kinetic energy and enstrophy a small scale perturbation superimposed on a large scale solitary wave do not grow in time as long as the perturbation scale remains much less than that of the wave. This property is proved to hold for the equivalent modons of Flierl et al. which therefore turn out to be resistant to small scale perturbations. These conclusions appear to explain the numerical results of McWilliams et al. on non divergent modons.     

利用海-气-浪耦合模式（COAWST）对北印度洋一次强热带风暴“Fani”(2019)过程的数值模拟

利用最新研发的区域海-气-浪耦合数值模式(Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport,COAWST),对印度洋一次超强热带气旋“Fani” (2019)过程进行了数值模拟试验。“Fani” 4月26日从热带印度洋面上的低压扰动中生成,在移动北上的过程中逐渐增强为强热带风暴,并于5月3日在印度登陆,造成了严重的破坏。利用COAWST耦合数值模式,在印度洋区域设计了数值模拟试验,分析了“Fani”发展增强到登陆时间段(4月30日12时—5月3日12时)大气物理量场、海洋表面温度及通量场,以及海浪参数的相应变化。通过与International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS)的实测风暴路径、强度数据,以及欧洲中心ERA5再分析资料对比结果表明:模式模拟“Fani”的移动路径与观测较为接近,但是在强度模拟上偏弱;大气地表2 m温度场、潜热和感热通量与ERA5再分析资料存在一定偏差,但模拟的海表面温度场强度和特征与ERA5再分析资料都比较接近;在强烈的热带气旋与海洋相互作用下,耦合模式给出在气旋发展阶段,海浪有效波高达到近10 m;数值试验结果表明耦合模式可以有效描述热带气旋-海洋之间的相互作用,对于印度洋强热带风暴具备一定的模拟能力。