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Stability of the Divergent Barotropic Rossby-Haurwitz Wave

발산 순압 로스비-하우어비츠 파동의 안정성

  • Jeong, Han-Byeol (Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Cheong, Hyeong-Bin (Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Pukyong National University)
  • 정한별 (부경대학교 환경대기과학과) ;
  • 정형빈 (부경대학교 환경대기과학과)
  • Received : 2016.03.21
  • Accepted : 2016.04.15
  • Published : 2016.04.30
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Abstract

Stability of the barotropic Rossby-Haurwitz wave is investigated using the numerical models on the global domain. The Rossby-Haurwitz wave under investigation is composed of the basic zonal flow of super-rotation and a finite amplitude spherical harmonic wave. The Rossby-Haurwitz wave is given as either steady or unsteady wave by adjusting the strength of the super-rotating zonal flow. Stability as well as the growth rate of the wave in the numerical simulation is determined by comparing the perturbation amplitude at two different time stages. Unstable modes of the Rossby-Haurwitz wave exhibited a horizontal structure composing of various zonal-wavenumber components. The vorticity perturbation for some modes showed a discontinuity around the area of weak flow, which was found robust regardless of the horizontal resolution of the model. Fourier finite element model was shown to generate the unstable mode in earlier stage of the time integration due to less accuracy compared to the spherical harmonic spectral model. Taking the overall accuracy of the models into consideration, the time by which the unstable mode begin to dominate over the spherical harmonic wave was estimated.

전구영역 수치모델을 이용하여 순압 로스비-하우어비츠 파동의 안정성을 조사하였다. 본 연구에서 조사한 로스비-하우어비츠 파동은 강체 회전하는 동서 기본류와 유한한 진폭을 가지는 구면조화 파동으로 구성된다. 로스비-하우어비츠 파동은 강체 회전하는 동서 평균류의 강도에 따라 정상 또는 비정상의 구조로 나타난다. 수치 실험을 통해 임의의 다른 두 시간에서 섭동장의 진폭을 비교하여 파동의 안정성뿐만 아니라 성장률을 결정하였다. 로스비-하우어비츠 파동의 불안정 모드는 다양한 동서 파수 성분이 결합된 형태로 나타났다. 파동의 속도가 느린 지역에서 와도 섭동장은 불연속적인 형태를 보이는데, 이는 모델의 수평 해상도와 관계가 없는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 푸리에-유한 요소 모델에서 더 이른 적분 시간에 불안정 모드가 나타났는데, 이는 구면조화 스펙트럴 모델 대비 더 낮은 수치 정확도를 가지기 때문인 것으로 보인다. 모델의 전체적인 정확도를 고려하여, 불안정 모드가 구면 조화 파동을 전체적으로 지배하기 시작하는 시간을 추정하였다.

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