Stratified shear turbulence: Evolution and statistics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 439-442

  Werne, Joseph ^a   Fritts, David C ^a  

^a Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SHEAR FLOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENTRAINMENT ZONE; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LOCAL GRADIENTS; NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR TURBULENCES; SPATIAL SCALE;

TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

GRADIENT RICHARDSON NUMBER; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; KOLMOGOROV SPECTRA; STRATIFIED SHEAR TURBULENCE;

SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033558152     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900022     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Cot, C. and J. Barat, Wave-Turbulence Interaction in the Stratosphere: A Case Study, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 2749-2756, 1986.
2. Fritts, D. C., S. Arendt and Ø. Andreassen, Vorticity dynamics in a breaking internal gravity wave, 2. Vortex interactions and transition to turbulence, J. Fluid Mech., 367, 47-65, 1998.
3. Gage, K. S. and T. E. VanZandt, The simulation of intermittent clear air turbulence by a Monte-Carlo technique, Sixth Symposium on Turbulence and Diffusion 22-25, 1983.
4. Julien, K., S. Legg, J. McWilliams and J. Werne, Rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection, J. Fluid Mech., 322, 243-273, 1996.
5. Klaassen, G. P. and W. R. Peltier, The onset of turbulence in finite-amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz billows, J. Fluid Mech., 155, 1-35, 1985.
6. Klaassen, G. P. and W. R. Peltier, The influence of stratification on secondary instability in free shear layers, J. Fluid Mech., 227, 71-106, 1991.
7. Miles, J. W., On the stability of heterogeneous shear flows, J. Fluid Mech., 10, 496-508, 1961.
8. Palmer, T. L., D. C. Fritts, Ø. Andreassen and I. Lie, Three-dimensional evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows in stratified compressible flow, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2287-2290, 1994.
9. Palmer, T. L., D. C. Fritts and Ø. Andreassen, Evolution and breakdown of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows in stratified compressible flows, II: Instability structure, evolution and energetics, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3192-3212, 1996.
10. Spalart, P. R., R. D. Moser and M. M. Rogers, Spectral methods for the Navier-Stokes equations with one infinite and two periodic directions, J. Comput. Phys., 96, 297-324, 1991.
11. Stull, R. B., An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1988).
12. Woods, J. D., On Richardson's number as a criterion for laminar-turbulent-laminar transition in the ocean and atmosphere, Radio Sci., 4, 1289-1298, 1969.
13. Woods, J. D. and R. L. Wiley, Billow turbulence and ocean microstructure, Deep-Sea Res., 19, 87-121, 1972.