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Nonlinear latitudinal transfer of wave activity in the winter stratosphere
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dc.contributor.author | Scott, R. K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-28T23:34:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-28T23:34:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04-29 | |
dc.identifier | 258448080 | |
dc.identifier | ee7f439c-30f0-4f22-8c9a-35a34d666370 | |
dc.identifier | 85065097639 | |
dc.identifier | 000479030200009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Scott , R K 2019 , ' Nonlinear latitudinal transfer of wave activity in the winter stratosphere ' , Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3536 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-9009 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:1AB0405769D7FC950B35B139342AA333 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-5624-5128/work/57088437 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/19865 | |
dc.description | Partial support for this work was provided through the National Science Foundation award AGS-1333029. | en |
dc.description.abstract | The transfer of wave activity between wave guides separated in latitude by a surf zone region of zero potential vorticity gradient is investigated in a simple model of the winter stratosphere and its extension into the Tropics. The distinction from classical wave propagation on a slowly varying background state is illustrated in a conceptual model in which latitudinal separation is reduced locally by wave disturbances of finite amplitude, implying a nonlinear dependence of the transfer on wave amplitude and a nonlinear transfer of wave activity to higher zonal wavenumbers. The response of a topographically forced vortex in the presence of different forms of tropical circulation, comprising either uniform or vertically localized anomalies, is examined numerically, using an exact pseudomomentum‐based wave activity to diagnose separately the vortex and tropical wave responses. Changes to the zonal mean flow in the Tropics are related in a natural way to the potential vorticity structure of the background state and the associated wave guides, which also control the general character of tracer mixing across and out of the Tropics. | |
dc.format.extent | 14 | |
dc.format.extent | 1732873 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | en |
dc.subject | Nonlinearity | en |
dc.subject | Planetary wave | en |
dc.subject | Potential vorticity | en |
dc.subject | Wave guide | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | QA Mathematics | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QA | en |
dc.title | Nonlinear latitudinal transfer of wave activity in the winter stratosphere | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Applied Mathematics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/qj.3536 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2020-04-29 |
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