Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30xasc3w&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 24, pp. ASC 3-1, CiteID 2255, DOI 10.1029/2003GL018498
Physics
Geophysics
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Mathematical Geophysics: Modeling, Mathematical Geophysics: Nonlinear Dynamics, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Planetary Meteorology (5445, 5739)
Scientific paper
Inertia-gravity waves exist ubiquitously throughout the stratified parts of the atmosphere and ocean. They are generated by local velocity shears, interactions with topography, and as geostrophic (or spontaneous) adjustment radiation. Relatively little is known about the details of their interaction with the large-scale flow, however. We report on a joint model/laboratory study of a flow in which inertia-gravity waves are generated as spontaneous adjustment radiation by an evolving large-scale mode. We show that their subsequent impact upon the large-scale dynamics is generally small. However, near a potential transition from one large-scale mode to another, in a flow which is simultaneously baroclinically-unstable to more than one mode, the inertia-gravity waves may strongly influence the selection of the mode which actually occurs.
Haine Thomas W. N.
Read Peter L.
Williams Dana P.
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