Perturbation growth in terms of barotropic alignment properties

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 593 PART B, 2003, Pages 2613-2635

  Riviere G ^a   Hua, B L ^b   Klein, P ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Satellite   (France)

Author keywords

Alignment dynamics; Kinetic energy growth; Local instability

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTORS; WIND;

ERROR GROWTH;

METEOROLOGY;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; KINETIC ENERGY; PERTURBATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW;

EID: 0141688479     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.106     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Barnier, B., Hua, B. L. and Leprovost, C. 1991 On the catalytic role of high baroclinic modes in eddy-driven large-scale circulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 21, 976-997.
2. Cai, M. and Mak, M. 1990 On the basic dynamics of regional cyclogenesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 1417-1442
3. Frederiksen, J. S. 1983 Disturbances and eddy fluxes in northern hemisphere flows: Instability of three-dimensional January and July flows. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 836-855
4. Holland, W. R. 1978 The role of mesoscale eddies in the general circulation of the ocean numerical experiment using a wind-driven quasi-geostrophic model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 8, 363-392
5. Hoskins, B. J., James, I. N. and White, G. H. 1983 The shape, propagation and mean-flow interaction of large-scale weather systems. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 1595-1612
6. Hua, B. L., McWilliams, J. C. and Klein, P. 1998 Lagrangian accelerations in geostrophic turbulence. J. Fluid Mech., 366, 87-108
7. Kucharski, F. and Thorpe, A. J. 2001 The influence of transient upper-level barotropic growth on the development of baroclinic waves. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 127, 835-844
8. Lapeyre, G., Klein, P. and Hua, B. L. 1999 Does the tracer gradient vector align with the strain eigenvectors in 2D turbulence. Phys. Fluids A. 11, 3729-3737
9. Mak, M. and Cai, M. 1989 Local barotropic instability. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 3289-3311
10. Okubo, A. 1970 Horizontal dispersion of floatable particles in the vicinity of velocity singularities such as convergences. Deep-Sea Res., 17, 445-454
11. Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1984 Local and global baroclinic instability of zonally varying flow. J. Atmos Sci., 41, 2141-2162
12. Schmitz, W. J. and Holland, W. R. 1986 Observed and modeled mesoscale variability near the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension. J. Geophys. Res., 91, 9624-9638
13. Simmons, A. J., Wallace, J. M. and Branstator, G. W. 1983 Barotropic wave propagation and instability, and the atmospheric teleconnection patterns. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 1363-1392
14. Snyder, C. and Hamill, T. M. 2003 Leading Lyapunov vectors of a turbulent baroclinic jet in a quasi-geostrophic model. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 683-688
15. Snyder, C., Hamill, T. M. and Trier, S. B. 2003 Linear evolution of error covariances in a quasi-geostrophic model. Mon. Weather Rev., 131, 189-205
16. Straub, D. N. 2003 Instability of 2D flows to hydrostatic 3D perturbations. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 79-102
17. Thompson, P. D. 1986 A simple approximate method of stochastic-dynamic prediction for small initial errors and short range. Mon. Weather Rev., 114, 1709-1715
18. Weiss, J. 1991 The dynamics of enstrophy transfer in two-dimensional turbulence. Physica D, 48, 273-294