The energy spectrum in a barotropic atmosphere

Details The energy spectrum in a barotropic atmosphere The energy spectrum in a barotropic atmosphere

Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008adg....15...17k&link_type=abstract

Advances in Geosciences, Volume 15, 2008, pp.17-22

Mathematics

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In a forced-dissipative barotropic model of the atmosphere on a spherical planet, by following mathematical techniques in (Thompson, P. D.: The equilibrium energy spectrum of randomly forced two-dimensional turbulence, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 1593-1598, 1973) but applying them in a novel context of the discrete spectrum on a rotating sphere, the "minus 2" energy spectrum for wavenumbers much greater than a characteristic wavenumber of the baroclinic forcing has been obtained if the forcing is taken in the simplest and most fundamental form. Some observation-based atmospheric kinetic energy spectra, with their slopes lying between "minus 2" and "minus 3" laws, are discussed from the perspective of the deduced "minus 2" energy spectrum.

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