Baroclinic Waves in a Shallow Saturated Layer

balance and inertia–gravity waves in a two-layer baroclinic model

balance, breakdown of balance, and generation of inertia–gravity waves in vortical flows are fundamental topics of prime importance in geophysical fluid dynamics. this research aims to find the optimum balance relation as well as the rossby-number variation of the spontaneous generation of inertia–gravity waves in a baroclinic, two-layer, boussinesq model on a doubly-periodic f-plane geometry f...

Physical Simulation of Baroclinic Waves and Vortices in the Atmosphere

Linear Waves and Baroclinic Instability in an Inhomogeneous Layer Primitive Equations Ocean Model

We consider a multilayer generalization of Ripa’s inhomogeneous single-layer primitive equations model. In addition to vary arbitrarily in horizontal position and time, the horizontal velocity and buoyancy fields are allowed to vary linearly with depth within each layer of the model. Preliminary results on linear waves and baroclinic instability suggest that a configuration involving a few laye...

Boundary layer dissipation and the nonlinear interaction of equatorial baroclinic and barotropic rossby waves

Two-layer equatorial primitive equations for the free troposphere in the presence of a thin atmospheric boundary layer and thermal dissipation are developed here. An asymptotic theory for the resonant nonlinear interaction of long equatorial baroclinic and barotropic Rossby waves is derived in the presence of such dissipation. In this model, a self-consistent asymptotic derivation establishes t...

Gravitational Waves in a Shallow Compressible Liquid