Observations of Atmospheric Solitary Waves in the Urban Boundary Layer

The simultaneous operation of a three-axis Doppler sodar system in the centralurban area of Rome and two similar systems in the suburban area, forming atriangle about 20 km on each side, provided evidence of solitary-type wavesin the urban boundary layer. Three events, each lasting from a few minutes toabout 30 min, and ranging in depth from the minimum range of the sodar (39 m) to over 500 m, are reported here. Two events were recognizable onall three sodar records while the third event could be observed at the urbanlocation only. Time-height acoustic echo intensity records showed no-echoregions within the wave indicating transport of trapped recirculating air.This is typical of large amplitude solitary waves. The time series plots ofsodar-derived vertical wind velocity revealed a maximum peak-to-peakvariation of about 5 m s^-1 during periods of wave-associated disturbance.The vertical velocity is found to increase with height up to the top of the closedcirculation within the wave and decreases further above. The normalisedamplitude-wavelength relationship for the two events indicates that theobserved waves are close to a strongly nonlinear regime.     

The solitary waves of the barotropic quasi-geostrophic model with the large-scale orography

Starting from a modified barotropic quasi-geostrophic model equation, considering the actual situation of the large-orography of the Tibetan Plateau, neglecting its slope in x direction, and using the reductive perturbation method, then the solitary waves are obtained. The results show that the orography is essential factor exciting solitary Rossby waves in a flow without shear.     

Kinetic equations and stationary energy spectra of weakly nonlinear internal gravity waves

An ensemble of random-phase internal gravity waves is considered in the dynamical framework of the Euler–Boussinesq equations. For flows with zero mean potential vorticity, a kinetic equation for the mean spectral energy density of the waves is obtained under hypothesis of Gaussian statistics with zero correlation length. Stationary scaling solutions of this equation are found for almost vertically propagating waves. The resulting spectra are anisotropic in vertical and horizontal wave numbers. For flows with small but non-zero mean potential vorticity, under the same statistical hypothesis applied to the wave part of the flow, it is shown that the vortex part and the wave part decouple. The vortex part obeys a limiting slow dynamics equation exhibiting vertical collapse and layering which may contaminate the wave-part spectra. Relation of these results to the in situ atmospheric measurements and previous work on oceanic gravity waves is discussed.     

波流相互作用的大气系统中振荡模态的分析

把经验模态分解(EMD)方法用于波流相互作用的大气动力系统,对不同系统状态的流甬数解序列求其本征模态函数(IMF)分量,分析系统状态与IMF之间的关系,揭示流甬数的振荡结构.结果表明:随着系统的复杂性增大,构成解序列的IMF分量的个数相应增多.对于系统的定常态(Hadley流),每个流函数ψ分量的各个IMF分量都趋于零均值线;对于周期态(Rosssby流),ψ分量由1个周期性的高频IMF分量构成;对于振荡态,分量主要由2-3个较高频IMF分量构成;对于非周期流,ψ分量由多个非周期的IMF分量构成;对于周期-非周期状态,其本征模态有的有周期性,有的没有周期性.低频IMF分量表现ψ序列的长时间尺度的变化.     

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。     

Combined wavelet and principal component analysis (WEof) of a scale-oriented model of coastal ocean gravity waves

Coastal ocean numerical modeling is basically the representation of the dynamics of the coastal ocean in a chosen range of length scales and over an associated frequency band, including the modeling of both coherent processes and associated transient processes. The ocean dynamical features can be individually identified by combining wavelet analysis for time and frequency localization and principal component analysis to “decorrelate” physically consistent structures. In the present paper, the so-called WEof analysis is applied for the extraction of external gravity waves and internal gravity wave lower modes in a simple case of a flat bottom, constant Brunt-Väisälä ocean. It is shown that, with some well known restrictive assumptions, WEof analysis is an efficient candidate for the recognition of frequency localized dynamical processes.     

夏季青藏高原低涡的切向流场及波动特征分析

从大气动力学原理出发,将高原低涡视为受热源强迫的边界层内涡旋,建立了柱坐标下满足梯度风平衡的低涡控制方程组,分析高原低涡切向流场的基本特征.在此基础上,通过求解线性化涡旋模式,得出高原低涡中各类波动的频散关系及其特征,同时定性讨论了热力作用对混合波动的影响以及混合波动与高原低涡流场特征的联系.使用中尺度数值模式WRF分...     

A survey of unbalanced flow diagnostics and their application

1.IntroductionImbalanceisdefinedintermsoftowhatextenttheflowdepartsfromabalancedstate.Despitetheapparentcomplexityofatmosphericmotions,thepressure(massfield)andvelocity(momentum)distributioncanberelatedbyrathersimpleapproximateforcebalances(sothatparcelaccelerationscanbeignored).Davisetal.(1996)pointedoutthattheunderlyingassumptionofbalanceddingnosticsisthatthenowevolvesinawayconsistentwiththerestrictionsimplicitwithinthediagnosticframework.ThesimplesttwobalancerelationsaregeostrOPhl'cbalance…     

架空导线耦合雷电电磁波实验与分析

通过传输线模型的理论分析,利用理论推导与实验相结合的方法,采用架空导线耦合模拟雷电进行实验。结果表明,当雷电回击通道中雷电流在5~29 kA范围时,架空导线耦合雷电电磁波形成的过电压幅值随雷电流的增大呈线性增加;耦合的能量随雷电流的增大呈幂函数关系增加;并且随导线长度的增加,耦合到的过电压和能量均减小;随导线截面积的增大,耦合到的过电压和能量均增大。     

热带平流层多尺度波动分离方案的研究：多站点高分辨率无线电探空联合分析

利用太平洋地区台风过境期间6个热带气象站的高分辨率无线电探空资料,结合扩展经验正交函数（EEOF）展开,对热带下平流层行星波和重力波扰动进行了分离,给出了一种热带地区提取重力波扰动的新方案。对观测数据做EEOF展开后,选择表征行星尺度波动模态的特征向量和相应权重进行气象要素场的重建。结果显示,在不同的台风过程期间,温度、纬向风和经向风的重建扰动量显示出不同的动力学偏振关系:在准两年振荡（QBO）东风位相时与赤道开尔文波的偏振关系一致,而在准两年振荡西风位相时与混合罗斯贝-重力波（MRG）的偏振关系一致。把行星尺度波动模态从原始观测中剔除,得到新的扰动廓线,对其进行重力波垂直波数谱的谱型拟合。结果发现,与以往方法提取的重力波扰动相比,新方法所得谱型参数中特征垂直波长λ*在不同时期不同站点变化很小,稳定在1.7 km左右,且低频波数段谱斜率s的数值与理论假设1十分接近。综合其研究结果可以推测,用新方法提取的热带重力波扰动更加符合当前的理论垂直波数谱模型。      

Acoustic thermometry data compared with two ocean models: the importance of Rossby waves and ENSO in modifying the ocean interior

An interpretation is made of interannual changes in acoustic travel time between Oahu and seven receivers at distances of 3000–4000 km. Measurements were made in late 1983, and over two 5-month intervals between 1987 and 1989. Previous publications demonstrated that these changes stem from variations in temperature. Two hydrodynamic ocean models are used to identify plausible oceanic features that could cause these variations. They are from the Naval Research Laboratory and the Florida State University at (1/8)° and (1/6)° resolution, respectively, and are forced with different interannual wind sets for more than a decade. Modelled El Niño's and La Niña's generate poleward travelling Kelvin waves on the eastern boundary of the Pacific. These excite Rossby waves that propagate westward at mid-latitudes. Rossby waves are the dominant model features which affect the modelled acoustic travel times, and hence section-averaged temperatures in the eastern North Pacific. These waves yield travel times whose standard deviations and rates of changes are similar to the measurements. In the observations, some sections separated by less than 500 km exhibit trends in heat content with opposite signs. Similar variability can be explained with modelled Rossby waves. Model wavelengths less than 500 km, eddies, and seasonal cycles induced by seasonal winds yield travel times that are two orders of magnitude too small to account for the data.     

The Boussinesq-BO equation for algebraic gravity solitary waves in baroclinic atmosphere and the research of squall lines formation mechanism

The gravity solitary waves are a kind of waves which are caused by the disturbance of static equilibrium. The nonlinearity concentration of the gravity solitary waves makes the energy assemble together and forms disastrous weather phenomena, such as squall lines. By the calculation condition and theoretical method limit, previous studies tried hard to reduce the variable numbers and discussed the gravity solitary waves in barotropic atmosphere, but the baroclinic problem of atmosphere is inevitable topic. In this paper, from the basic kinetic equations in baroclinic non-static equilibrium atmosphere, by using multi-scale analysis and perturbation method, a new model is derived to describe the algebraic gravity solitary waves, we call it Boussinesq-BO equation. Comparing with the former models, the Boussinesq-BO model can describe the propagation process of waves in two directions and is more suitable for the real atmosphere condition. With the help of the trial function method, an exact solution of Boussinesq-BO equation is obtained and the fission property of algebraic gravity solitary waves is discussed. Finally, we can find that the fission of algebraic gravity solitary waves is also a possible formation mechanism of squall lines.