On the concentration of near-inertial waves in anticyclones

DOI10.1017/JFM.2015.252MaRDI QIDQ3459342zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Danioux, Oliver Bühler, J. Vanneste

Publication date 22 December 2015

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

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

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)

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.

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