On the concentration of near-inertial waves in anticyclones

DOI10.1017/JFM.2015.252zbMATH Open1331.86008arXiv1503.00551OpenAlexW2964058304MaRDI QIDQ3459342FDOQ3459342

Authors: E. Danioux, Oliver Bühler, J. Vanneste 

Publication date: 22 December 2015

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

Abstract: An overlooked conservation law for near-inertial waves propagating in a steady background flow provides a new perspective on the concentration of these waves in regions of anticyclonic vorticity. The conservation law implies that this concentration is a direct consequence of the decrease in spatial scales experienced by an initially homogeneous wave field. Scaling arguments and numerical simulations of a reduced-gravity model of mixed-layer near-inertial waves confirm this interpretation and elucidate the influence of the strength of the background flow relative to the dispersion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00551

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zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesocean processesgeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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