baroclinic instability
Disk Weather - Baroclinic Instability and Vortex Amplification
... relaxation time of 0.1–100 orbits, then a so called Subcritical Baroclinic Instability (SBI) will amplify small vortices to giant anti-cyclons (see Fig. 1) as has been shown in local 3D shearing sheat simu- ...
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The baroclinic instability of the zonal winds to short waves
... ii SUMMARY THE BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY of the ZONAL WINDS to SHORT WAVES This thesis deals with the asymptotic solution of the equations describing a simple harmonic, travelling- wave dis[r] ...
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Linear baroclinic instability in the Martian atmosphere: Primitive equation calculations
... study, baroclinic-barotropic instability of the Martian atmosphere is studied for a zonal basic state based on Mariner 9 observations, using a spherical linear primitive equation model derived from a method ...
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Synchronization and chaos control in a periodically forced, quasi geostrophic, two layer model of baroclinic instability
... Returning finally to the climate, there remains the ques- tion of the applicability of these results on a highly idealised system to that of a real geophysical system. Clearly, their applicability to climate cycles, for ...
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Baroclinic instability of a symmetric, rotating, stratified flow: a study of the nonlinear stabilisation mechanisms in the presence of viscosity
... the baroclinic insta- bility of the basic flow (a uniform thermal wind in the direc- tion of symmetry kept constant in time) and dissipated by dif- fusive (Laplacian) ...
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Synchronization in a coupled two-layer quasigeostrophic model of baroclinic instability – Part 1: Master-slave configuration
... The dynamics obtained in the chaotic regime are equivalent to the modulated amplitude vacillation (MAV) flow regime found in baroclinic annulus experiments in the laboratory (Read et al., 1992) and numerical ...
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Experiments on transitions of baroclinic waves in a differentially heated rotating annulus
... the baroclinic annulus experiment, baroclinic waves have been investigated in the annulus not only in numerous experimental studies but also theoretically, ...
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On the energetics of a two layer baroclinic flow
... induces baroclinic instability, whose nonlinear equilibration attempts to reduce the ...and baroclinic instability gives rise to the formation of baroclinic jets and, in extreme cases, ...
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Interlaced dynamics of density waves and vortices in self-gravitating Discs
... wave instability (RWI) whose non-linear development leads to sustained vortex formation ...as baroclinic instability [21, 22] or Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of seed small scale vorticity ...
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Generation of large-scale intrusions at baroclinic fronts: an analytical consideration with a reference to the Arctic Ocean
... clinic instability of geostrophic zonal wind has been studied theoretically by Miles ...the baroclinic instability (the generation of cyclones and anticyclones) for typical atmospheric geostrophic ...
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The Matsuno baroclinic wave test case
... term baroclinic usually implies the use of multi- layer models, here this term is used to denote a single thin layer model of homogeneous density where the gravity-wave speeds are similar to those observed in ...
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The ICON-1.2 hydrostatic atmospheric dynamical core on triangular grids – Part 1: Formulation and performance of the baseline version
... deterministic baroclinic instability test of Jablonowski and Williamson (2006a,b), carried out simulations at vari- ous horizontal resolutions, and compared the ICOHDC re- sults with those from the spectral ...
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Existence, stability and formation of baroclinic triples in quasi geostrophic flows
... are baroclinic vortices able to transport tracers or species, and which have been observed at ...a baroclinic tripole, in a continuously stratified quasi-geostrophic ...of baroclinic tripoles ...
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Unpredictability of internal M
... Recent studies on tidal motions focus on the dissipation of lunar (M) gravitational energy by the world’s tides and on their importance for the large-scale meridional overturn- ing in the ocean (Munk and Wunsch, 1998). ...
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Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the quasi 2 day wave over Collm (51.3 N, 13 E) as obtained from VHF meteor radar measurements
... the low-pass filtered time series in order to find only signifi- cant maxima. This day of maximum QTDW amplitude in the low-pass filter was further set to zero time. In a window of 30 days ( − 20 to + 10 days) all events ...
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Convex and concave types of second baroclinic mode internal solitary waves
... Abstract. Two types of second baroclinic mode (mode-2) internal solitary waves (ISWs) were found on the continental slope of the northern South China Sea. The convex waveform displaced the thermal structure upward ...
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Vertical Fluxes Induced by Weak-Nonlinear Internal Waves in a Baroclinic Flow
... Formulation of the problem. Free internal waves on the baroclinic flow with account for eddy viscosity and diffusion in the Boussinesq approximation are considered. Internal wave amplitude distribution, dispersive ...
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Vertical Transport of Momentum by the Inertial-Gravity Internal Waves in a Baroclinic Current
... When the internal waves break, they are one of the sources of small-scale turbulence. Small-scale turbulence causes the vertical exchange in the ocean. However, internal waves with regard to the Earth rotation in the ...
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Cooling Effect of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
... the instability are also simulated by simply setting a = 0 (unperturbed interface), while other parameters are the same as the ones for the case with the ...
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Numerical modeling of deflagration to detonation transition in inhomogeneous hydrogen/air mixtures
... of baroclinic torque and RM instability have also been ...RM instability on the interface between the burned and unburned ...RM instability is the primary source of turbulence generation in ...
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