旋转正压大气中的Rossby波射线

本文将缓变介质中波动的传播理论应用于Rossby波。在基流和不同走向地形假设下，计算了Rossby波射线路径及沿射线波数的变化。结果表明大尺度地形对Rossby波射线有显著影响。     

行星尺度定常波经向波列波射线路径及截获带的季节特征

本文采用平均西风廓线的实际资料，对冬夏季节遥相关经向波列特征进行了研究，本文数值分析表明，由于冬夏平均西风廓线的季节差异，遥相关波列也呈显著的季节特征:波射线的传播、截获范围、波折射率随纬度变化状态、大地形与海洋热源因子引起经向波列共振特征均表现出明显的季节差异。本文还探讨了大地形、热源因子与遥相关经向波列特征的相关关系。     

稳定的和不稳定的斜压行星波

本文采用两层模式,初步地应用“时空同化”的自然观,引进空间不稳定性观点,把空间不稳定性和时间不稳定性结合起来,研究振幅随纬度变化的斜压行星波的存在范围和其稳定性;得出了稳定的和不稳定的斜压行星波及其空间不稳定判据,并对传统的斜压行星波不稳定理论和判据作出鉴定,重新提出了斜压行星波时间不稳定判据,并讨论其物理含义;还得出了高层和低层斜压行星波相互强迫振动的机制以及不同纬度间扰动振幅的关系。     

基流水平结构变化在定常Rossby波列传播及正压能量转换中的作用

本文利用球面正压大气的准地转方程组讨论了基本气流水平结构及其变化对于定常Ross(?)y波列传播的影响,发现定常Rossby波列的两维传播与基本气流的水平切变有关,急流的存在阻挡了波长较短的波列的径向传播,使其在强迫源附近被“trapped”,但长波可以通过很强的急流区并具有准径向传播的特征。另外本文还分析了基本气流水平结构的变化对正压不稳定能量转换的影响,定性地解释了急流附近定常Rossby波列强度的变化。     

利用RegCM4.0模拟5-8月青藏高原异常加热的下游效应

利用区域气候模式,通过在青藏高原范围设置三种不同强度的大气异常加热率,讨论了5-8月青藏高原加热异常对同期大气环流的影响。研究结果表明:(1)5月份,以4 K·d-1的速率加热高原大气12天后,500 hPa位势高度异常在鄂霍次克海附近为正值区、中国东北及堪察加半岛以南为负值区,出现了疑似波列结构,但200 hPa呈西正东负的二极分布。6月份这种波列结构更加明显,200 hPa形成了完整的类Okhotsk-Japan(OKJ)波列型。(2)在其他月份未出现类似的波列结构。7月,蒙古至鄂霍次克海及日本以东一带地区200 hPa和500 hPa的负位势高度异常连成一片;8月,日本以东地区转为正值中心、鄂霍次克海附近仍维持负异常。(3)随着异常加热的增强,沿6月波列传播路径上的各点的位势高度异常振幅基本成比例增加。(4)射线追踪分析结果显示,5、6月份的波射线路径分布类似,模拟路径位于纬向波数为3和4对应的射线轨迹之间。     

低频球面正压大气行星波的频散特征及大气环流遥相关型形成的物理机制

本文研究了非均匀基本纬向流中低频球面正压大气行星波的能量频散特征,讨论了波射线,求得了波射线路径的近似方程。此外,还讨论了沿波射线波包振幅和能量的变化。所得结果可给出大气环流遥相关型水平结构形成及其演变的基本物理图象。      

正压大气球面行星波螺旋结构变化的机制

本文就正压大气球面行星波螺旋结构的发展变化机制进行探讨。当经向波数是时间t的缓变函数时,得到波的平方涡度,波能量和波振幅的三个不同增长条件。球面螺旋波只和具有较差转动的基本气流交换能量和平方涡度。分析表明,旋转大气的球面效应是十分重要的。β效应随纬度的变化,通过对波的传播发生影响,使波的结构发生变化,在北半球,它总是有助于中纬地区东北——西南向槽脊的形成;在南半球,则有助于中纬地区西北——东南向槽脊的形成;使波的角动量涡动输送指向两极;从而有助于低纬东风,中高纬西风的维持。实例计算表明,理论分析和实况较为一致。     

江淮流域旱涝年份准定常行星波分布与平均纬向风速的差异

利用欧洲数值预报中心1980—1989年6—8月资料，讨论了80年代江淮流域夏季旱涝年份亚洲地区平均纬向风速和准定常行星波分布的差异。旱年类与涝年类相比，热带东风急流强度偏强，纬度位置偏南；副热带急流强度相近，位置偏北。旱年（涝年）类的夏季准定常行星波的分布反映了菲律宾周围水域上空和青藏高原地面的热源均为偏强（弱）的异常外源强迫的结果。二者的主要差异表明，在中高纬度振幅大值区，旱年类纬度位置较涝年类偏北几个纬度。厄尔尼诺与反厄尔尼诺年份之间，准定常行星波各纬向波数的振幅距平分布基本上具有完全相反的型式，亚     

辐散风作用下低频Rossby波的能量传播

文中研究了热力强迫所激发的辐散风对低频Rossby波能量传播的影响 ,推导出辐散风作用下的Rossby波的频散关系和群速度表达式。理论分析表明 :如果扰动流函数与速度势的位相差α∈ (0 ,π) ,那么辐散风将减小Ross by波的圆频率 ,增大群速度的纬向分量 ,加速Rossby波在纬向方向上的传播 ;辐散风对经向群速度的影响是比较复杂的。波射线的分析表明 ,在纬向基本气流为常数的情况下 ,辐散风作用下的低频Rossby波从初始位置到反射纬度的传播路径表现为一段光滑的大弧 ;对于周期为 30d、纬向波数k =3,4的Rossby波 ,当辐散风减弱时 ,波能量经向传播距离和纬向传播距离都增大。对于k =3的Rossby波 ,当辐散风减弱时 ,Rossby波的经向传播范围增大 ,但振幅强度减小。     

地球大气行星波的螺旋结构

本文从描写大气大尺度运动的动力方程组出发,讨论了地球大气行星波的螺旋结构,给出了这种螺旋结构的“宏图”,指出:(1)螺旋状的行星波在整个大气三度空间都存在;(2)准水平面上的行星波是对数螺旋结构,这种行星波在垂直方向上也呈对数螺旋分布;(3)螺旋行星波存在一个相速条件(即存在范围),它的形状与波位相速紧密相关,而且它有频散作用;(4)螺旋波的形成,主要由于南北方向和垂直方向空气的较差转动及Coriolis参数随纬度的变化。     

冬季低纬度热源异常在北半球对流层大气环流异常中的作用

本文首先从理论上讨论了北半球冬季低纬度强迫源与中纬度强迫源强迫所产生的准定常行星波在实际基本气流中传播路径及其振幅分布的差异,指出冬季低纬度热源异常将对北半球中、高纬度对流层大气环流的异常起很大影响,而中纬度热源异常将对平流层环流异常起很大作用。 本文应用一个包括Rayleigh摩擦、Newton冷却及水平涡旋热力扩散准地转34层球坐标模式分别计算了冬季低纬度热源异常与中纬度热源异常所造成北半球扰动系统的异常情况,计算结果表明了冬季低纬度热源异常将对中、高纬度对流层大气环流异常起很大作用,热带太平洋上空热源异常将产生PNA型环流异常。     

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.     

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.     

Variations in Amplitudes and Wave Energy along the Energy Dispersion Paths for Rossby Waves in the Quasigeostrophic Barotropic Model

Variations in wave energy and amplitude for Rossby waves are investigated by solving the wave energy equation for the quasigeostrophic barotropic potential vorticity model.The results suggest that compared with rays in the nondivergent barotropic model,rays in the divergent model can have enhanced meridional and zonal propagation,accompanied by a more dramatic variability in both wave energy and amplitude,which is caused by introducing the divergence effect of the free surface in the quasigeostrophic model.For rays propagating in a region enclosed by a turning latitude and a critical latitude,the wave energy approaches the maximum value inside the region,while the amplitude approaches the maximum at the turning latitude.Waves can develop when both the wave energy and amplitude increase.For rays propagating in a region enclosed by two turning latitudes,the wave energy approaches the minimum value at one turning latitude and the maximum value at the other latitude,while the total wavenumber approaches the maximum value inside the region.The resulting amplitude increases if the total wavenumber decreases or the wave energy increases more significantly and decreases if the total wavenumber increases or the wave energy decreases more significantly.The matched roles of the energy from the basic flow and the divergence of the group velocity contribute to the slightly oscillating wave energy,which causes a slightly oscillating amplitude as well as the slightly oscillating total wavenumber.     

北半球副热带—中纬度太平洋大气季节内扰动的纬向传播与东亚夏季旱涝

用时空滤波和Morlet小波方法,分析了1958—2000年夏季东亚(20°—45°N,110°—135°E)不同纬带(由南到北分为4个区域)的降水分别与太平洋同一纬带上大气30—60 d振荡(ISO)沿纬圈传播的关系及其成因机制。发现太平洋上经向风ISO向西传播的强或弱,是东亚夏季风区降水偏多或偏少的必要条件。对逐年夏季的分析表明,无论当年东亚夏季风强与否,在所划分的几个东亚季风区所有涝的年份里,太平洋同一纬带上大气ISO向西传播都明显较强,而在这些区域绝大多数旱的年份里,相应的ISO向西传播明显较弱。进一步分析发现,经向风ISO的纬向传播对应着大气经向型环流系统的移动,向西传影响东亚夏季风区降水的ISO有来自低纬中东太平洋东风流中的低频气旋(如副热带东风带中ISO的演变);也有来自中高纬度阿拉斯加湾及鄂霍次克海一带低频低压(如洋中槽)和高压(如阻塞高压和东北太平洋高压)的向南向西频散。因此东亚夏季旱涝不但与热带季风有关,而且与中东太平洋副热带东风系统中ISO的向西传播、中高纬度长波调整时低频扰动向西南经北太平洋副热带的传播密切相关。     

Advances in research on atmospheric energy propagation and the interactions between different latitudes

Early theoretical analyses indicated that the tropics and extratropics are relatively independent due to the existence of critical latitudes. However, considerable observational evidence has shown that a clear dynamical link exists between the tropics and midlatitudes. To better understand such atmospheric teleconnection, several theories of wave energy propagation are reviewed in this paper: (1) great circle theory, which reveals the characteristics of Rossby waves propagating in the spherical atmosphere; (2) westerly duct theory, which suggests a “corridor” through which the midlatitude disturbances in one hemisphere can propagate into the other hemisphere; (3) energy accumulation-wave emanation theory, which proposes processes through which tropical disturbances can affect the atmospheric motion in higher latitudes; (4) equatorial wave expansion theory, which further explains the physical mechanisms involved in the interaction between the tropics and extratropics; and (5) meridional basic flow theory, which argues that stationary waves can propagate across the tropical easterlies under certain conditions. In addition, the progress made in diagnosing wave-flow interaction, particularly for Rossby waves, inertial-gravity waves, and Kelvin waves, is also reviewed. The meridional propagation of atmospheric energy exhibits significant annual and interannual variations, closely related to ENSO and variation in the westerly jets and tropical upper-tropospheric troughs, amongst others.     

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.     

大气能量传播及不同纬度间大气相互作用的研究进展

早期的理论分析认为大气中临界纬度的存在使得热带-热带外的大气活动互不影响。然而,大量的观测事实表明中低纬度大气运动存在着明显的动力联系。为了帮助人们更好地理解大气中的遥相关现象,在大量文献的基础上,综述了几种波能量传播理论:(1) 大圆理论指出了罗斯贝波在球形大气中的传播特征;(2) 西风通道理论发现了中纬度瞬变扰动越赤道传播的“走廊”;(3) 能量堆积-波列发射理论揭示了热带扰动影响到更高纬度大气活动的可能过程;(4) 赤道波侧向膨胀理论则利用转折纬度的概念更进一步解释了这种中低纬度大气相互作用的物理机制;(5) 经向基本流理论则认为在一定的条件下定常波可以穿过热带东风带传播到另一半球。此外,文中还回顾了在波-流相互作用诊断方面的研究进展,尤其是关于罗斯贝波、惯性重力波和赤道开尔文波。大气能量的经向传播具有显著的年变化和年际变化,这与ENSO、西风急流、大洋中部槽等的变化密切相关。     

On inertial currents over a sloping continental shelf

Using simple mathematical models, it is shown that an equatorward flowing coastally confined eastern boundary current (or poleward flowing western boundary current) may have two conjugate forms which transport the same flux of each water type. In a slowly varying environment, these two conjugate forms coalesce at some critical latitude which depends on the flow. For lower latitudes there is no defined form. As the coalescence latitude is approached from higher latitudes, one of the two conjugate forms narrows, while the other widens. Furthermore, in the neighborhood of the critical latitude the wider form is subcritical and the narrower form is supercritical to possible long small amplitude shelf waves. It is also shown that a poleward flowing coastally confined eastern boundary current (or an equatorward flowing western boundary current) may be traced poleward to some critical latitude beyond which the possibility of a current in juxtaposition with the coast terminates. For latitudes higher than this terminating latitude the current separates from the coast.