Pub Date : 2020-03-18DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1734199
A. Orozco Estrada, R. C. Cruz Gómez, A. Cros, P. Le Gal
This study is devoted to laboratory experiments on the coalescence of two lenticular anticyclones in a linearly stratified rotating fluid. These anticyclones are generated by injecting small volumes of fluid at the centre of a rotating tank where a linearly stratified layer was previously prepared with salt. The characteristics of the interaction between the vortices are studied by visualisation and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) as a function of the initial separation distance between the vortices, the Coriolis parameter of the rotating table and the Brünt-Väisälä frequency of the density stratification. Our results show that the merging critical distance depends drastically on the Rossby radius of deformation of the vortices and are in complete agreement with previous numerical modelling of vortex coalescence. We have also observed that mergers involve three-dimensional processes as the vortices intertwine together possibly because of the presence of an elliptic instability that tilts the vortex cores. They are also accompanied by the emission of vorticity filaments and internal gravity waves radiation although we cannot prove that in our experiments these waves are solely due to the merging process.
{"title":"Coalescence of lenticular anticyclones in a linearly stratified rotating fluid","authors":"A. Orozco Estrada, R. C. Cruz Gómez, A. Cros, P. Le Gal","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2020.1734199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2020.1734199","url":null,"abstract":"This study is devoted to laboratory experiments on the coalescence of two lenticular anticyclones in a linearly stratified rotating fluid. These anticyclones are generated by injecting small volumes of fluid at the centre of a rotating tank where a linearly stratified layer was previously prepared with salt. The characteristics of the interaction between the vortices are studied by visualisation and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) as a function of the initial separation distance between the vortices, the Coriolis parameter of the rotating table and the Brünt-Väisälä frequency of the density stratification. Our results show that the merging critical distance depends drastically on the Rossby radius of deformation of the vortices and are in complete agreement with previous numerical modelling of vortex coalescence. We have also observed that mergers involve three-dimensional processes as the vortices intertwine together possibly because of the presence of an elliptic instability that tilts the vortex cores. They are also accompanied by the emission of vorticity filaments and internal gravity waves radiation although we cannot prove that in our experiments these waves are solely due to the merging process.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"23 1","pages":"504 - 523"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88135796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-24DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1724996
O. Shamir, N. Paldor, C. Garfinkel
Two common approximations to the full Shallow Water Equations (SWEs) are non-divergence and quasi-geostrophy, and the degree to which these approximations lead to biases in numerical solutions are explored using the test bed of barotropic instability. Specifically, we examine the linear stability of strong polar and equatorial jets and compare the growth rates obtained from the SWEs along with those obtained from the Non-Divergent barotropic vorticity (ND) equation and the Quasi-Geostrophic (QG) equation. The main result of this paper is that the depth over which a layer is barotropically unstable is a crucial parameter in controlling the growth rate of small amplitude perturbations and this dependence is completely lost in the ND equation and is overly weak in the QG system. Only for depths of 30 km or more are the growth rates predicted by the ND and QG systems a good approximation to those of the SWEs, and such a convergence for deep layers can be explained using theoretical considerations. However, for smaller depths, the growth rates predicted by the SWEs become smaller than those of the ND and QG systems and for depths of between 5 and 10 km they can be smaller by more than . For polar jets, and for depths below 2 km the mean height in geostrophic balance with the strong zonal jet becomes negative and hence the barotropic instability problem is ill-defined. While in the SWEs an equatorial jet becomes stable for layer depths smaller than 3–4 km, in the QG and ND approximations it is unstable for layer depths down to 1 km. These result may have implications for the importance of barotropic instability in Earth's upper stratosphere and perhaps also other planets such as Venus.
{"title":"Barotropic instability of a zonal jet on the sphere: from non-divergence through quasi-geostrophy to shallow water","authors":"O. Shamir, N. Paldor, C. Garfinkel","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2020.1724996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2020.1724996","url":null,"abstract":"Two common approximations to the full Shallow Water Equations (SWEs) are non-divergence and quasi-geostrophy, and the degree to which these approximations lead to biases in numerical solutions are explored using the test bed of barotropic instability. Specifically, we examine the linear stability of strong polar and equatorial jets and compare the growth rates obtained from the SWEs along with those obtained from the Non-Divergent barotropic vorticity (ND) equation and the Quasi-Geostrophic (QG) equation. The main result of this paper is that the depth over which a layer is barotropically unstable is a crucial parameter in controlling the growth rate of small amplitude perturbations and this dependence is completely lost in the ND equation and is overly weak in the QG system. Only for depths of 30 km or more are the growth rates predicted by the ND and QG systems a good approximation to those of the SWEs, and such a convergence for deep layers can be explained using theoretical considerations. However, for smaller depths, the growth rates predicted by the SWEs become smaller than those of the ND and QG systems and for depths of between 5 and 10 km they can be smaller by more than . For polar jets, and for depths below 2 km the mean height in geostrophic balance with the strong zonal jet becomes negative and hence the barotropic instability problem is ill-defined. While in the SWEs an equatorial jet becomes stable for layer depths smaller than 3–4 km, in the QG and ND approximations it is unstable for layer depths down to 1 km. These result may have implications for the importance of barotropic instability in Earth's upper stratosphere and perhaps also other planets such as Venus.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"126 1","pages":"15 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88120412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-20DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2019.1685511
P. Roberts, Cheng-Chin Wu
ABSTRACT Magnetostrophic dynamos are studied in an annular core, adapting the seminal work of Taylor [The magnetohydrodynamics of a rotating fluid and the Earth's dynamo problem. Proc. R. Soc. London A. 1963, 274, 274] for a fluid-filled core. The model consists of an inviscid fluid core and a concentric solid inner core. The fluid is supposed to obey the Boussinesq equations of motion and is driven into motion by a flow-forcing function consisting of the buoyancy force of an adverse radial temperature gradient, opposed by the Lorentz force of the self-sustained magnetic field. Coriolis forces act but inertial and viscous forces are ignored. Taylor (1963) showed how such a “magnetostrophic dynamo” can be found when there is no solid inner core, but his ideas have to be non-trivially generalised when an inner core is present. That is undertaken in this paper. In the 1993, CUP book, “Theory of Solar and Planetary Dynamos”, Hollerbach and Proctor gave examples in which the zonal flow created by a specified flow-forcing function may be singular on the “tangent cylinder”, an imaginary cylinder tangential to the inner core and parallel to the polar axis. It is shown here how this singularity is related to the flow-forcing function, and how discontinuities of other components of the fluid velocity on the tangent cylinder are determined by that function. In appendix A, an identity is established between the leading terms in the Fourier expansion of two of the cylindrical components of an arbitrary vector field. In appendix B, eight examples are given relevant to annular dynamos. In appendix C, equatorial symmetry is considered.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-03DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2019.1697875
S. D. Marshall, P. Read
We present a series of experimental investigations in which a differentially-heated annulus was used to investigate the effects of topography on rotating, stratified flows. In particular, we investigate blocking effects via azimuthally varying differential-heating and compare them to previous experiments utilising partial mechanical barriers. The thermal topography used consisted of a flat patch of heating elements covering a small azimuthal extent of the base, forming an equivalent of a partial barrier, to study the difference between blocked and unblocked flow. These azimuthally-varying heating experiments produced results with many similarities to our previous experiments with a mechanical barrier, despite the lack of a physical obstacle or formation of bottom-trapped waves. In particular, a unique flow structure was found when the drifting flow and the topography interacted in the form of an “interference” regime at low Taylor number, but forming an erratic “irregular” regime at higher Taylor number. This suggests that blocking may be induced by either or both of a thermal or mechanical inhomogeneity. Evidence of coherent/persistent resonant wave triads was noted in both kinds of experiment, though the component wavenumbers of the wave-triads and their impact on the flow was found to depend on the topography in question.
{"title":"Thermal versus mechanical topography: an experimental investigation in a rotating baroclinic annulus","authors":"S. D. Marshall, P. Read","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2019.1697875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2019.1697875","url":null,"abstract":"We present a series of experimental investigations in which a differentially-heated annulus was used to investigate the effects of topography on rotating, stratified flows. In particular, we investigate blocking effects via azimuthally varying differential-heating and compare them to previous experiments utilising partial mechanical barriers. The thermal topography used consisted of a flat patch of heating elements covering a small azimuthal extent of the base, forming an equivalent of a partial barrier, to study the difference between blocked and unblocked flow. These azimuthally-varying heating experiments produced results with many similarities to our previous experiments with a mechanical barrier, despite the lack of a physical obstacle or formation of bottom-trapped waves. In particular, a unique flow structure was found when the drifting flow and the topography interacted in the form of an “interference” regime at low Taylor number, but forming an erratic “irregular” regime at higher Taylor number. This suggests that blocking may be induced by either or both of a thermal or mechanical inhomogeneity. Evidence of coherent/persistent resonant wave triads was noted in both kinds of experiment, though the component wavenumbers of the wave-triads and their impact on the flow was found to depend on the topography in question.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"198 1","pages":"763 - 797"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72941560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-02-01Epub Date: 2019-10-24DOI: 10.1007/s12630-019-01514-5
Satyen Parida
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Pub Date : 2020-01-28DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1715966
S. Galtier
ABSTRACT Capillary waves are perhaps the simplest example to consider for an introduction to wave turbulence. Since the first paper by Zakharov and Filonenko, capillary wave turbulence has been the subject of many studies, but a didactic derivation of the kinetic equation is still lacking. It is the objective of this paper to present such a derivation in the absence of gravity and in the approximation of deep water. We use the Eulerian method and a Taylor expansion around the equilibrium elevation for the velocity potential to derive the kinetic equation. The use of directional polarities for three-wave interactions leads to a compact form for this equation which is fully compatible with previous work. The exact solutions are derived with the so-called Zakharov transformation applied to wavenumbers, and the nature of these solutions is discussed. Experimental and numerical works done in recent decades are also reviewed.
{"title":"Wave turbulence: the case of capillary waves","authors":"S. Galtier","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2020.1715966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2020.1715966","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Capillary waves are perhaps the simplest example to consider for an introduction to wave turbulence. Since the first paper by Zakharov and Filonenko, capillary wave turbulence has been the subject of many studies, but a didactic derivation of the kinetic equation is still lacking. It is the objective of this paper to present such a derivation in the absence of gravity and in the approximation of deep water. We use the Eulerian method and a Taylor expansion around the equilibrium elevation for the velocity potential to derive the kinetic equation. The use of directional polarities for three-wave interactions leads to a compact form for this equation which is fully compatible with previous work. The exact solutions are derived with the so-called Zakharov transformation applied to wavenumbers, and the nature of these solutions is discussed. Experimental and numerical works done in recent decades are also reviewed.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"25 1","pages":"234 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73460778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-27DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1712716
Y. Stepanyants, I. Sturova
ABSTRACT We study in the linear approximation barotropic Rossby waves in the ocean covered by compressed ice. We derive the dispersion relation and analyse its dependence on the degree of ice compression and its flexural rigidity. The characteristic parameters of a wave-field the most sensible to the influence of ice cover are estimated and presented for the Earth and some other planets. The main conclusion is rather pessimistic as the influence of ice cover on Rossby waves in the typical situations is almost insignificant, albeit in some special conditions it may be important. Anyway, the theoretical results clarifying the possible influence of ice or any other elastic cover on water waves in a rotating fluid represent an interest, in our opinion.
{"title":"Rossby waves in the ocean covered by compressed ice","authors":"Y. Stepanyants, I. Sturova","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2020.1712716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2020.1712716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We study in the linear approximation barotropic Rossby waves in the ocean covered by compressed ice. We derive the dispersion relation and analyse its dependence on the degree of ice compression and its flexural rigidity. The characteristic parameters of a wave-field the most sensible to the influence of ice cover are estimated and presented for the Earth and some other planets. The main conclusion is rather pessimistic as the influence of ice cover on Rossby waves in the typical situations is almost insignificant, albeit in some special conditions it may be important. Anyway, the theoretical results clarifying the possible influence of ice or any other elastic cover on water waves in a rotating fluid represent an interest, in our opinion.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"40 1","pages":"306 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75577503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-27DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2019.1704752
J. Reinaud
We analyse the linear stability of filaments of uniform potential vorticity with a horizontal axis in a quasi-geostrophic flow. For a single filament, the situation corresponds to the simplest three-dimensional shear zone in a rapidly rotating, continuously stably stratified fluid. Yet, this has not been formally addressed to our knowledge. We show that the filament is sensitive to the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability for perturbations in a finite range of streamwise wavenumbers , similarly to the classical situation of a two-dimensional strip of uniform vorticity. We also analyse the stability of a jet formed by two parallel filaments of opposite PV whose axes are located on the same horizontal plane as well as the stability of “hetonic” filaments. Hetonic filaments consist of a pair of opposite PV filaments located at different heights. These can be sensitive to baroclinic instabilities over a wide range of longitudinal wavenumbers.
{"title":"Stability of filaments of uniform quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity","authors":"J. Reinaud","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2019.1704752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2019.1704752","url":null,"abstract":"We analyse the linear stability of filaments of uniform potential vorticity with a horizontal axis in a quasi-geostrophic flow. For a single filament, the situation corresponds to the simplest three-dimensional shear zone in a rapidly rotating, continuously stably stratified fluid. Yet, this has not been formally addressed to our knowledge. We show that the filament is sensitive to the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability for perturbations in a finite range of streamwise wavenumbers , similarly to the classical situation of a two-dimensional strip of uniform vorticity. We also analyse the stability of a jet formed by two parallel filaments of opposite PV whose axes are located on the same horizontal plane as well as the stability of “hetonic” filaments. Hetonic filaments consist of a pair of opposite PV filaments located at different heights. These can be sensitive to baroclinic instabilities over a wide range of longitudinal wavenumbers.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"21 1","pages":"798 - 820"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86326387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-20DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2019.1692829
M. Kurgansky, T. Seelig, M. Klein, A. Will, U. Harlander
Laboratory experiments with a rotating cylindrical annulus are reported that reveal a prograde jet, which is adjacent to a (longitudinally) librating inner straight cylindrical wall. Here, wall libration is realised as a time-harmonic modulation of the inner cylinder's rotation rate. The outer cylindrical wall and bottom and top lids rotate with constant angular velocity. The main purpose of our study is to contribute to a qualitative and quantitative understanding of non-linearities that are present in oscillating, but centrifugally stable, vertical boundary layers frequently encountered in rotating wall-bounded flows. We consider a problem that is in a sense complementary to that of previous works that focused on oscillating Ekman layers but neglected the vertical Stokes−Stewartson layers. A simple analytical model is proposed that is able to predict the magnitude and spatial structure of the emerging prograde near-wall jet in terms of nonlinearity inherent in the inner cylinder's boundary layer dynamics.
{"title":"Mean flow generation due to longitudinal librations of sidewalls of a rotating annulus","authors":"M. Kurgansky, T. Seelig, M. Klein, A. Will, U. Harlander","doi":"10.1080/03091929.2019.1692829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2019.1692829","url":null,"abstract":"Laboratory experiments with a rotating cylindrical annulus are reported that reveal a prograde jet, which is adjacent to a (longitudinally) librating inner straight cylindrical wall. Here, wall libration is realised as a time-harmonic modulation of the inner cylinder's rotation rate. The outer cylindrical wall and bottom and top lids rotate with constant angular velocity. The main purpose of our study is to contribute to a qualitative and quantitative understanding of non-linearities that are present in oscillating, but centrifugally stable, vertical boundary layers frequently encountered in rotating wall-bounded flows. We consider a problem that is in a sense complementary to that of previous works that focused on oscillating Ekman layers but neglected the vertical Stokes−Stewartson layers. A simple analytical model is proposed that is able to predict the magnitude and spatial structure of the emerging prograde near-wall jet in terms of nonlinearity inherent in the inner cylinder's boundary layer dynamics.","PeriodicalId":56132,"journal":{"name":"Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics","volume":"73 1","pages":"742 - 762"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84029470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-15DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2019.1708348
Mathieu Morvan, P. L’Hégaret, Charly de Marez, X. Carton, Stéphanie Corréard, R. Baraille
The Red Sea Water is a warm and salty water produced in the Red Sea by evaporation induced by strong solar radiation. This dense water mass exits the Red Sea through the Strait of Bab El Mandeb, and enters the Gulf of Aden as a density current between 400 and 1000 metre depth. In the Gulf of Aden, in situ and satellites observations have shown the impact of the deeply reaching eddies dominating the mesoscale dynamics, on the spreading of the Red Sea Water. In this paper, we study the life cycle of these mesoscale eddies in the Gulf of Aden by using a regional primitive equation model at mesoscale resolution, and an eddy-tracking algorithm. The mesoscale anticyclonic eddies are formed at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, and subsequently drift westward into the gulf. Mesoscale anticyclones are long-lived compared to the cyclones. The cyclones result from the interaction of anticyclones with the coast and the sloping topography. The wind stress, the bathymetry and the surrounding eddy field drive the life cycle of eddies. Finally, Kelvin and internal waves are triggered along the northern and southern coasts.
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