Coastal imbalance: generation of oceanic Kelvin waves by atmospheric perturbations

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.746MaRDI QIDQ5154774zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Vanneste

Publication date 5 October 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08628

zbMATH Keywords

linear shallow-water modelquasi-geostrophic flowrotating fluidsemi-infinite oceanslowly travelling atmospheric perturbationsmall Rossby number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Geophysical flows (76U60) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: The response of a semi-infinite ocean to a slowly travelling atmospheric perturbation crossing the coast provides a simple example of the breakdown of nearly geostrophic balance induced by a boundary. We examine this response in the linear shallow-water model at small Rossby number $varepsilonll1$. Using matched asymptotics we show that a long Kelvin wave, with $O(varepsilo{n}^{-1})$ length scale and $O(varepsilon)$ amplitude relative to quasigeostrophic response, is generated as the perturbation crosses the coast. Accounting for this Kelvin wave restores the conservation of mass which is violated in the quasigeostrophic approximation.

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• Nonlinear geostrophic adjustment in the presence of a boundary

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• Non-conservation of ‘geostrophic mass’ in the presence of a long boundary and the related Kelvin wave
• Quasi-geostrophy against the wall
• Balance model for equatorial long waves
• Internal Kelvin wave frontogenesis on the equatorial pycnocline
• Resonant excitation of coastal Kelvin waves by inertia-gravity waves

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