正压大气模式中在地形效应和β效应作用下的非线性Rossby包络孤立波

在正压大气模式下,采用多重尺度法研究了基本气流具有弱切变的正压非线性Rossby孤立波包,得到了当波振幅和纬向波数都是缓变情况下Rossby波包振幅的演变满足带有β效应和小尺度地形作用的非线性非齐次Schrdinger方程.说明β效应和地形效应是诱导Rossby包络孤立波的重要因素.     

推广的β平面近似的Rossby孤立波包

研究了在中高纬度下考虑推广的β平面,研究了基本气流具有弱切变的非线性正压Rossby波,得到了偶极子阻塞形成的一个理论及其影响的问题.采用多重尺度法的方法,获得了Rossby波包满足非线性Schr9dinger方程的结果,通过δ效应对波包的波数产生影响,从而对Rossby的频率产生影响.指出:当Rossby波的波数满足k~2/3-Fm~24k~2+4/3F(k为纬向波数,m为经向波数)时,大气中周期Rossby波可以产生调制不稳定,形成包络Rossby孤立波.由于δ效应会对波数产生影响,推广了大气阻塞理论的结果.     

弱二次切变基本流下地形和β变化的Rossby孤立波

在正压流体中从包含地形的准地转位涡出发,利用行波变换和约化摄动法导出了弱二次切变基本流下β变化和地形共同作用的正压Rossby孤立波振幅满足非齐次KdV方程.并计算了非齐次KdV方程的系数,说明弱二次切变基本气流、β变化和地形对Rossby孤立波的作用.     

缓变地形下β效应的Rossby代数孤立波

正压流体中,从准地转位涡方程出发采用摄动方法和时空伸长变换推导了在缓变地形下β效应的Rossby代数孤立波方程,得到Rossby波振幅满足带有缓变地形非齐次Benjamin-Davis-Ono(BDO)方程的结论.通过分析孤立Rossby波振幅的演变,指出了β效应、地形效应是诱导Rossby孤立波产生的重要因素,说明了在缓变地形强迫效应和非线性作用相平衡的假定下,Rossby孤立波振幅的演变满足非齐次BDO方程,给出在切变基本气流下缓变地形和正压流体中Rossby波的相互作用.     

纬向非均匀基流对大气长波调整的作用

大气长波的发展和演变影响着大气的可预报性,并对提高天气预报和气候预测水平有重要的意义.在影响大气长波演变的因子中,除波与波非线性相互作用外,基流的作用也非常重要.本文利用非均匀基本场下Rossby波运动方程,通过数值求解,分析了基本场结构和初始场对Rossby波演变的影响,揭示了纬向非均匀基本场对长波调整的作用.研究结果表明:基流纬向非均匀时,线性Rossby波也会出现长波调整现象,基流随纬向变化是长波发生调整的又一个重要机制;大气长波调整对波动的初始振幅不敏感,但基本场振幅影响着长波调整能否出现和出现的时间;基本场纬向平均西风基流的大小除影响波动传播的速度和方向外,还影响长波调整出现的时间和规律;长波调整的出现还与基本场和初始场的结构有关,不同基本场时,波动是否发生调整、向高波数还是向低波数调整都决定于基本场结构,相同基本场时,不同初始结构的波动也有着不同的演变过程.     

线性缓变下垫面和耗散共同作用的Rossby孤立波包

本文从正压流体的准地转位涡方程出发,考虑到Rossby波随时间、空间演变的多尺度特性,采用多重尺度和摄动展开的方法推导了在线性缓变下垫面和耗散共同作用下的非线性Rossby波包演变满足推广的非线性Schdinger方程,并得到单个包络的孤立波解.通过分析包络的孤立波解,指出在耗散与下垫面共同作用下,大气中会出现双曲正割形状的Rossby孤立波包.同时得到,在切变基本流存在的情况下,地形强迫和耗散对Rossby包络孤立波的传播速度、波数和频率均有影响的结论.     

大气活动中心在低频遥相关机制中的作用之解析研究

注意到Rossby波列的谱平均性质 ,采用气候平均流场为基本流场 ,从正压无辐散的线性化涡度方程 ,导出了赤道以外大气低频振荡周期和能量水平传播速度的解析近似公式 .发现准静止的大气活动中心就是低频振荡发生器 ;低频振荡并不一定沿大圆传播 ,而是在偏北的平均气流中越过流线向南传播 ,在偏南的平均气流中越过流线向北传播 ,在槽底或脊顶附近转向 .     

地形作用下的近赤道非线性Rossby波

本文首次从带有地形的赤道大气基本方程组出发,利用浅水模式近似、半地转近似、Gardner-Morikawa变换以及摂动展开法得到了具有地形效应的赤道非线性波动振幅所满足的Korteweg-de Vries方程,并且利用Jacobi椭圆函数展开法求得非线性方程对应的周期波解和孤立波解,指出地形是产生赤道Rossby孤立波的重要因素.     

热带海洋和大气中地形Rossby波和Rossby波的耦合不稳定

当大尺度背景场存在赤道急流时, 由相应不均匀的温跃层(海洋)和高度场(大气)激发出的地形Rossby波和由β效应激发出的Rossby波, 在一定条件下, 通过相互作用后可产生一类新的不稳定, 称为地形Rossby波和Rossby波的耦合不稳定. 讨论了这类波系在ENSO发展中可能起的作用.     

热带大洋对纬向和经向风应力的联合响应

考虑了经向风应力和纬向风应力联合作用下热带大洋的响应问题.结果表明,只有一阶的经向风应力或具有辐合辐散的经向风应力才对最后的速度场和位势场造成影响.零阶的扰动温跃层和纬圈流受风应力的直接驱动和Kelvin波、Rossby短波的影响,而Rossby短波由经向风应力直接造成;二阶模则受风应力的直接驱动和Rossby短波的作用,同时经向风应力也产生了附加的Rossby短波.另外,在西边界处存在很强的暖水补充到赤道的现象,经向风应力有使暖水向赤道输送的作用,而西风应力使西边界处的暖水向东输送.     

On steady and travelling waves over bottom topography in the model of homogeneous flow in a beta-plane channel

Abstract

A spectral low-order model is proposed in order to investigate some effects of bottom corrugation on the dynamics of forced and free Rossby waves. The analysis of the interaction between the waves and the topographic modes in the linear version of the model shows that the natural frequencies lie between the corresponding Rossby wave frequencies for a flat bottom and those applying in the “topographic limit” when the beta-effect is zero. There is a possibility of standing or eastward-travelling free waves when the integrated topograhic effect exceeds the planetary beta-effect.

The nonlinear interactions between forced waves in the presence of topography and the beta-effect give rise to a steady dynamical mode correlated to the topographic mode. The periodic solution that includes this steady wave is stable when the forcing field moves to the West with relatively large phase speed. The energy of this solution may be transferred to the steady zonal shear flow if the spatial scale of this zonal mode exceeds the scale of the directly forced large-scale dynamical mode.     

Critical levels for forced Rossby and continental shelf waves

The generation of waves on a geostrophic shear flow by a travelling forcing pattern is considered. The model describes both atmospheric Rossby waves on a zonal shear flow and continental shelf waves on a boundary current. By means of the Laplace transform technique, the development of the solution in time is studied, starting from some initial instant when the forcing starts. The asymptotic form of the forced solution is shown to depend crucially upon whether the speed of the travelling forcing lies inside the range of the current or not. The possible application of the results to the Florida current is discussed.     

Shear flow driven magnetized planetary wave structures in the ionosphere

The generation and further linear and nonlinear dynamics of planetary ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves are investigated in the rotating dissipative ionosphere in the presence of inhomogeneous zonal wind (shear flow). Planetary ULF magnetized Rossby type waves appear as a result of interaction of the medium with the spatially inhomogeneous geomagnetic field. An effective linear mechanism responsible for the intensification and mutual transformation of large scale magnetized Rossby type and small scale inertial waves is found. For shear flows, the operators of the linear problem are not self-conjugate, and therefore the eigenfunctions of the problem may not be orthogonal and can hardly be studied by the canonical modal approach. Hence, it becomes necessary to use the so-called nonmodal mathematical analysis. The nonmodal analysis shows that the transformation of wave disturbances in shear flows is due to the non-orthogonality of eigenfunctions of the problem in the conditions of linear dynamics. Using numerical modeling, the peculiar features of the interaction of waves with the background flow as well as the mutual transformation of wave disturbances are illustrated in the ionosphere. It has been shown that the shear flow driven wave perturbations effectively extract an energy of the shear flow increasing the own energy and amplitude. These perturbations undergo self-organization in the form of the nonlinear solitary vortex structures due to nonlinear twisting of the perturbation’s front. Depending on the features of the velocity profiles of the shear flows the nonlinear vortex structures can be either monopole vortices or vortex streets and vortex chains.     

Boundary layer dissipation and the nonlinear interaction of equatorial baroclinic and barotropic rossby waves

Two-layer equatorial primitive equations for the free troposphere in the presence of a thin atmospheric boundary layer and thermal dissipation are developed here. An asymptotic theory for the resonant nonlinear interaction of long equatorial baroclinic and barotropic Rossby waves is derived in the presence of such dissipation. In this model, a self-consistent asymptotic derivation establishes that boundary layer flows are generated by meridional pressure gradients in the lower troposphere and give rise to degenerate equatorial Ekman friction. That is to say, the asymptotic model has the property that the dissipation matrix has one eigenvalue which is nearly zero: therefore the dynamics rapidly dissipates flows with pressure at the base of the troposphere and creates barotropic/baroclinic spin up/spin down. The simplified asymptotic equations for the amplitudes of the dissipative equatorial barotropic and baroclinic waves are studied by linear theory and integrated numerically. The results indicate that although the dissipation slightly weakens the tropics to midlatitude connection, strong localized wave packets are nonetheless able to exchange energy between barotropic and baroclinic waves on intraseasonal timescales in the presence of baroclinic mean shear. Interesting dissipation balanced wave-mean flow states are discovered through numerical simulations. In general, the boundary layer dissipation is very efficient for flows in which the barotropic and baroclinic components are of the same sign at the base of the free troposphere whereas the boundary layer dissipation is less efficient for flows whose barotropic and baroclinic components are of opposite sign at the base of the free troposphere.     

Can zonally symmetric inertial waves drive an oscillating zonal mean flow?

In the present paper zonal mean flow excitation by inertial waves is studied in analogy to mean flow excitation by gravity waves that plays an important role for the quasi-biennial oscillation in the equatorial atmosphere. In geophysical flows that are stratified and rotating, pure gravity and inertial waves correspond to the two limiting cases: gravity waves neglect rotation, inertial waves neglect stratification. The former are more relevant for fluids like the atmosphere, where stratification is dominant, the latter for the deep oceans or planet cores, where rotation dominates. In the present study a hierarchy of simple analytical and numerical models of zonally symmetric inertial wave-mean flow interactions is considered and the results are compared with data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings can be summarised as follows: (i) when the waves are decoupled from the mean flow they just drive a retrograde (eastward) zonal mean flow, independent of the sign of the meridional phase speed; (ii) when coupling is present and the zonal mean flow is assumed to be steady, the waves can drive vertically alternating jets, but still, in contrast to the gravity wave case, the structure is independent of the sign of the meridional phase speed; (iii) when coupling is present and time-dependent zonal mean flows are considered the waves can drive vertically and temporarily oscillating mean flows. The comparison with laboratory data from a rotating annulus experiment shows a qualitative agreement. It appears that the experiment captures the basic elements of the inertial wave mean flow coupling. The results might be relevant to understand how the Equatorial Deep Jets can be maintained against dissipation, a process currently discussed controversially.     

Amplification and energy transformation of the magnetized Rossby waves in the ionosphere with an inhomogeneous zonal wind. I. A theory

The generation and further dynamics of the planetary magnetized Rossby waves and inertial waves in a dissipative ionosphere in the presence of a smooth inhomogeneous zonal wind (shear flow) have been studied. The magnetized Rossby waves are caused by the interaction with the spatially inhomogeneous geomagnetic field and represent the ionospheric manifestations of usual tropospheric Rossby waves. The effective linear mechanism of amplification and mutual transformation of the Rossby and inertial waves has been revealed. For shear flows, the operators of linear problems are not self-adjoint, and the corresponding eigenfunctions are non-orthogonal; therefore, a canonical modal approach is of little use in studying such motions. It becomes necessary to apply the so-called nonmodal mathematical analysis, which has actively been developed for the last years. The nonmodal approach makes it possible to reveal that the transformation of wave-like disturbances in shear flows is caused by the nonorthogonality of eigenfunctions in the problem of linear dynamics. Thus, there appear a new degree of the system freedom and a new way of disturbance evolution in the medium.     

正压大气模式下具有β效应与地形效应的Rossby孤立波

正压大气模式下,采用摄动方法和时空伸长变换推导了具有β效应、地形效应和耗散的mKdV-Burgers方程,得到Rossby孤立波振幅的演变满足带有β效应,地形与耗散的mKdV-Burgersm方程的结论.说明β效应、地形效应是诱导Rossby孤立波的重要因素.     

Seasonal fluctuations in the deep central equatorial Atlantic Ocean: a data–model comparison

Low-frequency current fluctuations in the deep central equatorial Atlantic are analyzed using current meter measurements recorded from November 1992 to November 1994. Current meters were located at about 14°W of longitude and 1° of latitude on both sides of the equator between 1,700 m depth and the ocean bottom. At all sampling depths, the velocity fluctuations are dominantly zonal and symmetrical with respect to the equator. At 1,700 and 2,000 m, the flow is dominated by annual period fluctuations, at 3,000 m, the velocity field amplitude presents a minimum, and at 3,750 and 3,950 m, the flow is modulated by annual and semiannual period variability. The annual signal exhibits an apparent upward phase propagation. When considering the phase and the amplitude of the seasonal fluctuations, the data compare well with the outputs of a realistic numerical simulation of the Atlantic Ocean. Together with a previous analysis of the model simulations, this supports the idea that the observed annual fluctuations are due to wind-forced vertically propagating Kelvin and Rossby waves. Data and model do not provide deciding evidences of the presence of semiannual equatorial waves deeper than 3,500 m depth in the central equatorial Atlantic Ocean.