Internal gravity waves from atmospheric jets and fronts

R Plougonven, F Zhang - Reviews of Geophysics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For several decades, jets and fronts have been known from observations to be significant
sources of internal gravity waves in the atmosphere. Motivations to investigate these waves …

Balance and spontaneous wave generation in geophysical flows

J Vanneste - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The large-scale dynamics of the mid-latitude atmosphere and ocean is characterized by a
timescale separation between slow balanced motion and fast inertia-gravity waves. As a …

[HTML][HTML] Mixed layer instabilities and restratification

G Boccaletti, R Ferrari… - Journal of Physical …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The restratification of the oceanic surface mixed layer that results from lateral gradients in
the surface density field is studied. The lateral gradients are shown to be unstable to …

[HTML][HTML] Inertia–gravity waves spontaneously generated by jets and fronts. Part I: Different baroclinic life cycles

R Plougonven, C Snyder - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Inertia–Gravity Waves Spontaneously Generated by Jets and Fronts. Part I: Different
Baroclinic Life Cycles in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 64 Issue 7 (2007) …

Inertia gravity wave generation by the tropospheric midlatitude jet as given by the Fronts and Atlantic Storm‐Track Experiment radio soundings

R Plougonven, H Teitelbaum… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Generation of inertia gravity waves by the midlatitude tropospheric jet is studied on the basis
of the data obtained from the radio soundings over the North Atlantic during the Fronts and …

[HTML][HTML] Exponentially small inertia–gravity waves and the breakdown of quasigeostrophic balance

J Vanneste, I Yavneh - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
The spontaneous generation of inertia–gravity waves by balanced motion is investigated in
the limit of small Rossby number ϵ≪ 1. Particular (sheared disturbance) solutions of the …

[图书][B] Dynamics of vortex structures in a stratified rotating fluid

MA Sokolovskiy, J Verron - 2014 - Springer
This book is a summary of our 18-year period of joint work in the field of vortex dynamics in a
stratified rotating fluid under INTAS 94-3614 (1995–1997), INTAS/AIRBUS 04-80-7297 …

Resonant generation and energetics of wind-forced near-inertial motions in a geostrophic flow

DB Whitt, LN Thomas - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
A slab mixed layer model and two-dimensional numerical simulations are used to study the
generation and energetics of near-inertial oscillations in a unidirectional, laterally sheared …

Available potential vorticity and wave-averaged quasi-geostrophic flow

GL Wagner, WR Young - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
We derive a wave-averaged potential vorticity equation describing the evolution of strongly
stratified, rapidly rotating quasi-geostrophic (QG) flow in a field of inertia-gravity internal …

A well-balanced central-upwind scheme for the thermal rotating shallow water equations

A Kurganov, Y Liu, V Zeitlin - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop a well-balanced central-upwind scheme for rotating shallow water model with
horizontal temperature and/or density gradients—the thermal rotating shallow water …