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| Danioux, Eric; Vanneste, J.; Klein, Patrice; Sasaki, H.. |
| The spontaneous generation of inertia-gravity waves (IGWs) by surface-intensified, nearly balanced motion is examined using a high-resolution simulation of the primitive equations in an idealized oceanic configuration. At large scale and mesoscale, the dynamics, which is driven by baroclinic instability near the surface, is balanced and qualitatively well described by the surface quasi-geostrophic model. This however predicts an increase of the Rossby number with decreasing spatial scales and, hence, a breakdown of balance at small scale; the generation of IGWs is a consequence of this breakdown. The wave field is analysed away from the surface, at depths where the associated vertical velocities are of the same order as those associated with the balanced... |
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Palavras-chave: Internal waves; Quasi-geostrophic flows; Wave-turbulence interactions. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00083/19437/17389.pdf |
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| Suzuki, Nobuhiro. |
| The governing equations of a surface wave field and a coexisting roll–streak circulation typical of Langmuir circulations or submesoscale frontal circulations are derived to better describe their two-way interactions. The gradients and vertical velocities of the roll–streak circulation induce wave refraction, amplitude modulation and higher-order waves. These changes then produce wave–wave nonlinear forces and divergence of the wave-induced mass transport, both of which in turn affect the circulation. To accurately represent these processes, both a wave theory and a wave-averaged theory are developed without relying on any extrapolation, any spatiotemporal mapping or an approximation that treats the wave-induced mass divergence as being concentrated at the... |
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Palavras-chave: General fluid mechanics; Wave-turbulence interactions; Surface gravity waves. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00589/70080/68060.pdf |
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