Further numerical experiments on tropical waves

Numerical Experiments on the Generation of Normal Mode Rossby Waves

s Normal mode Rossby waves are simulated with an efficient Double Fourier Series (DFS) spectral model, and their structures are investigated by the Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis. By selecting appropriately the wave-vector component for EOF analysis among the geopotential height and velocity fields of wavenumber one, it was possible to get the EOFs from the time series data whose ...

Vortex Rossby waves on smooth circular vortices Part II. Idealized numerical experiments for tropical cyclone and polar vortex interiors

Idealized linear and nonlinear numerical experiments are carried out to test the predictions of the theory developed in Brunet and Montgomery [Vortex Rossby Waves on Smooth Circular Vortices Part I: Theory (pages 153–177, this issue)]. For a monopolar tropical cyclone-like vortex whose strength lies between a tropical depression and tropical storm, linear theory remains uniformly valid in time ...

Tropical cyclogenesis in tropical waves

The development of tropical depressions within tropical waves over the Atlantic and eastern Pacific is usually preceded by a " surface low along the wave " as if to suggest a hybrid wave-vortex structure in which flow streamlines not only undulate with the waves, but form a closed circulation in the lower troposphere surrounding the low. This 5 structure, equatorward of the easterly jet axis, r...

Numerical experiments on breaking waves on contrasting beaches using a two-phase flow approach

Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) numerical abilities: addition and further experiments on a zero-like concept.

A Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), able to quantify 6 or fewer item sets (including heterogeneous subsets) by using English labels (I. M. Pepperberg, 1994), was tested on addition of quantities involving 0-6. He was, without explicit training, asked, "How many total X?" for 2 sequentially presented collections (e.g., of variously sized jelly beans or nuts) and required to answer with a vocal ...