Inertial and gravity wave transmissions near radiative–convective boundaries

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.244MaRDI QIDQ3389273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tao Cai, Cong Yu, Xing Wei

Publication date 10 May 2021

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00205

zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesrotating flowsstratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the inertial and gravity wave transmissions near the radiative-convective boundaries in the {it f}-plane. Two configurations have been considered: waves propagate from the convective layer to the radiative stratified stable layer, or In this paper, we study inertial and gravity wave transmissions near radiative-convective boundaries on the {it f}-plane. Two configurations have been considered: waves propagate from the convective layer to the radiative stratified stable layer, or the other way around. It has been found that waves prefer to survive at low latitudes when the stable layer is strongly stratified ($N^2/(2Omega{)}^2>1$). When the stable layer is weakly stratified ($N^2/(2Omega{)}^2<1$), however, waves can survive at any latitude if the meridional wavenumber is large. Then we have discussed transmission ratios for two buoyancy frequency structures: the uniform stratification, and the continuously varying stratification. For the uniform stratification, we have found that the transmission is efficient when the rotation is rapid, or when the wave is near the critical colatitude. For the continuously varying stratification, we have discussed the transmission ratio when the square of buoyancy frequency is an algebraic function $N^{2}propto{z}^u(u>0)$. We have found that the transmission can be efficient when the rotation is rapid, or when the wave is near the critical colatitude, or when the thickness of the stratification layer is far greater than the horizontal wave length. The transmission ratio does not depend on the configurations (radiative layer sits above convective layer, or vice versa; wave propagates outward or inward), but only on characteristics of the wave (frequency and wavenumber) and the fluid (degree of stratification).

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