NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE SATURATED GRAVITY-WAVE SPECTRA IN THE ATMOSPHERE

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Title:	NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE SATURATED GRAVITY-WAVE SPECTRA IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Authors:	HUANG,CM;KUO,FS;LUE,HY;LIU,CH
Contributors:	物理研究所
Keywords:	UNIVERSAL SPECTRUM;MOMENTUM FLUXES;MST RADAR;TURBULENCE;STRATOSPHERE;AUSTRALIA;ADELAIDE
Date:	1992
Issue Date:	2010-07-08 14:13:16 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	中央大學
Abstract:	A two dimensional numerical model is used to compute the saturation of small scale gravity waves in the region near the critical level. The vertical wave number spectrum of horizontal velocity fluctuations in the unstable region (USR) where shear instability develops is found to be governed by wave-shear interaction and follows a theoretical saturation spectrum approximately omega(b)2/2m3. Wave-shear interaction is also found to be responsible for the observed fact that the variance of vertical velocity fluctuations is significantly lower than the level predicted by linear gravity wave theory. On the other hand, the corresponding spectrum in the stable region (SR) following a much shallower spectrum approximately m-2 is found to result from the combined effects of wave-wave interactions and eddy diffusion. The key step in our simulation is the separate parameterization of horizontal and vertical eddy diffusion coefficients instead of a constant molecular viscosity coefficient.
Relation:	JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute of Physics] journal & Dissertation

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