Atmospheric gravity waves: Processes and parameterization

U Achatz, MJ Alexander, E Becker… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Atmospheric predictability from subseasonal to seasonal time scales and climate variability
are both influenced critically by gravity waves (GW). The quality of regional and global …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale dynamics of the interaction between waves and mean flows: From nonlinear WKB theory to gravity-wave parameterizations in weather and climate …

U Achatz, YH Kim, GS Voelker - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction between small-scale waves and a larger-scale flow can be described by a
multi-scale theory that forms the basis for a new class of parameterizations of subgrid-scale …

Transmission and reflection of three-dimensional Boussinesq internal gravity wave packets in nonuniform retrograde shear flow

AD Gervais, GE Swaters, BR Sutherland - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
The transmission and reflection of finite-amplitude, three-dimensional, internal gravity wave
packets across a reflection level are examined numerically in a Boussinesq fluid with a …

MS-GWaM: A 3-dimensional transient gravity wave parametrization for atmospheric models

GS Voelker, G Bölöni, YH Kim… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Parametrizations for internal gravity waves in atmospheric models are traditionally subject to
a number of simplifications. Most notably, they rely on both neglecting wave propagation …

[HTML][HTML] A generalization of WKBJ method for solving a system describing propagation of coupled modes in underwater acoustics

PS Petrov, MS Kazak, TN Petrova - Physics Letters A, 2022 - Elsevier
A generalization of the WKBJ method for the case of coupled modes propagation in
problems of underwater acoustics is proposed. The generalized WKBJ ansatz has the form …

Instability cascade of strongly nonlinear gravity waves in a vertically sheared atmosphere

GS Voelker, M Schlutow - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.17392, 2023 - arxiv.org
Although internal gravity waves are generally recognized as an important mechanism to
distribute energy through the atmosphere, their dynamics near the instability is only partially …

Resonant and near-resonant internal wave triads for non-uniform stratifications. Part 2. Vertically bounded domain with mild-slope bathymetry

S Gururaj, A Guha - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Weakly nonlinear internal wave–wave interaction is a key mechanism that cascades energy
from large to small scales, leading to ocean turbulence and mixing. Oceans typically have a …

[PDF][PDF] Energy cascade of internal gravity waves in oceans

S Gururaj - 2023 - discovery.dundee.ac.uk
Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) is a system of ocean currents spanning thousands
of kilometers transporting heat, salt, carbon, and nutrients to different parts of the ocean. A …

Nonlinear Evolution of Localized Internal Gravity Wave Packets: Theory and Simulations with Rotation, Background Flow, and Anelastic Effects

AD Gervais - 2023 - era.library.ualberta.ca
A series of three studies investigates theoretically and numerically the evolution, stability,
and pseudomomentum transport of fully localized three-dimensional internal gravity wave …

Modeling orographic gravity waves from source to termination to improve parameterization schemes in climate models

S Rhode - 2023 - juser.fz-juelich.de
Gravity waves (GWs) are one of the most important drivers of middle atmospheric
circulationsand strongly affect the polar vortex of the winter hemisphere. These waves are …