DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027590
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85044455277
论文题名: A Comparison of Small- and Medium-Scale Gravity Wave Interactions in the Linear and Nonlinear Limits
作者: Heale C.J. ; Snively J.B.
刊名: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
ISSN: 2169897X
出版年: 2018
卷: 123, 期: 5 起始页码: 2454
结束页码: 2474
语种: 英语
英文关键词: gravity waves
; numerical simulation
; wave-wave interactions
英文摘要: A 2-D numerical model is used to compare interactions between small-scale (SS) (25 km horizontal wavelength, 10 min period) and medium-scale (MS, 250 km horizontal wavelength, 90 min period) gravity waves (GWs) in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere within three different limits. First, the MS wave is specified as a static, horizontally homogeneous ambient atmospheric feature; second, a linear interaction is investigated between excited, time-dependent SS and MS waves, and third, a fully nonlinear interaction at finite amplitudes is considered. It is found that the finite-amplitude wave interactions can cause SS wave breaking aligned with the phase fronts of the MS waves, which induces a permanent mean flow and shear that is periodic in altitude. This impedes SS wave propagation into in the upper thermosphere and dissipation by molecular diffusion, when compared to linear amplitude simulations. Linear cases also omit self-acceleration-related instabilities of the SS wave and secondary wave generation, which modulate the MS wavefield. Neither the linear or nonlinear cases resemble the static approximation, which, by reducing a dynamic wave interaction to a static representation that is vertically varying, produces variable momentum flux distributions that depend strongly upon the amplitude and phase of the larger-scale wave. This is an approximation made by GW parameterization schemes, and results suggest that including time-dependent effects and feedback mechanisms for interactions between resolved and parameterized waves will be an important area for future investigations especially as general circulation models begin to resolve MS GWs explicitly. ©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/114287
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作者单位: Center for Space and Atmospheric Research (CSAR) and the Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
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Heale C.J.,Snively J.B.. A Comparison of Small- and Medium-Scale Gravity Wave Interactions in the Linear and Nonlinear Limits[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,2018-01-01,123(5)