Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
May 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3310601n&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 10, CiteID L10601
Physics
Geophysics
11
Nonlinear Geophysics: Cascades, Nonlinear Geophysics: Turbulence (3379, 4568, 7863), Nonlinear Geophysics: Scaling: Spatial And Temporal (1872, 3270, 4277), Oceanography: Physical: Fronts And Jets, Oceanography: Physical: General Circulation (1218, 1222)
Scientific paper
We find that in parameter regimes relevant to the recently observed alternating zonal jets in oceans, the formation of these jets can be explained as due to an arrest of the turbulent inverse-cascade of energy by free Rossby waves (as opposed to Rossby basin modes) and a subsequent redirection of that energy into zonal modes. This mechanism, originally studied in the context of alternating jets in Jovian atmospheres and two dimensional turbulence in zonally-periodic configurations survives in spite of the presence of the meridional boundaries in the oceanic context.
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