Internal gravity-shear waves in the atmospheric boundary layer from acoustic remote sensing data

Izvestiya - Atmospheric and Ocean Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-202

  Lyulyukin, V S ^a   Kallistratova, M A ^a   Kouznetsov, R D ^a,b   Kuznetsov, D D ^a   Chunchuzov, I P ^a   Chirokova, G Yu ^c  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; ground based remote sensing; internal shear gravity waves; Kelvin Helmholtz waves; sodar

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BOUNDARY LAYER; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; S-WAVE; SODAR; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 84929658003     PISSN: 00014338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0001433815020103     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. S. A. Thorpe, “Experiments on Instability and turbulence in a stratified shear flow,” J. Fluid Mech. 61, 731–751 (1973).
2. M. D. Patterson, C. P. Caulfield, J. N. McElwaine, and S. B. Dalziel, “Time-dependent mixing in stratified Kelvin–Helmholtz billows: Experimental observations,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L15608 (2006).
3. W. R. Peltier and C. P. Caulfield, “Mixing efficiency in stratified shear flows,” Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 35, 135–167 (2003).
4. N. N. Romanova and I. G. Yakushkin, “Stabilization of a linearly unstable wave participating in a three-wave resonant interaction,” Izv., Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 46 (3), 360–368 (2010).
5. N. A. Bakas and B. F. Farrell, “The role of nonnormality in overreflection theory,” J. Atmos. Sci. 67, 2547–2558 (2010).
6. M. V. Kalashnik and O. G. Chkhetiani, “Wave generation on an interface by vortex disturbances in a shear flow,” Fluid Dyn. 49 (3), 384–394 (2014).
7. Z. N. Kogan and N. P. Shakina, “Numerical investigation of internal waves in jet streams including nonlinear effects,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 5, 79–93 (1973).
8. W. D. Smyth, “Kelvin–Helmholtz billow evolution from a localized source,” Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 130, 2753–2766 (2004).
9. X. Liu, J. Xu, H. Gao, and G. Chen, “Kelvin–Helmholtz billows and their effects on mean state during gravity wave propagation,” Ann. Geophys. 27, 2789–2798 (2009).
10. H. Pham and S. Sarkar, “Internal waves and turbulence in a stable stratified jet,” J. Fluid Mech. 648, 297–324 (2010).
11. N. P. Shakina, Hydrodynamic Instability in the Atmosphere (Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1996) [in Russian].
12. Yu. A. Stepanyants and F. L. Fabrikant, Wave Propagation in Shear Flows (Nauka-fizmatlit, Moscow, 1996) [in Russian].
13. C. J. Nappo, "An introduction to atmospheric gravity waves," in International Geophysics, (Academic Press, 2012), Vol. 102, 360 p.
14. J. J. Hicks, “Radar observations of a gravitational wave in clear air near the tropopause associated with CAT,” J. Appl. Meteorol. 8, 627–633 (1969).
15. A. Muschinski, “Local and global statistics of clear-air Doppler radar signals,” Radio Sci. 39, RS1008 (2004).
16. S. Fukao, H. Luce, T. Mega, and M. K. Yamamoto, “Extensive studies of large-amplitude Kelvin–Helmholtz billows in the lower atmosphere with VHF middle and upper atmosphere radar,” Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 137, 1019–1041 (2011).
17. C. B. Emmanuel, “Richardson number profiles through shear instability wave regions observed in the lower planetary boundary layer,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 5, 19–27 (1973).
18. W. Blumen, R. Banta, S. P. Burns, et al., “Turbulence statistics of a Kelvin–Helmholtz billow event observed in the night-time boundary layer during the CASES field program,” Dyn. Atmos. Oceans 34 (2), 189–204 (2001).
19. R. K. Newsom and R. M. Banta, “Shear-flow instability in the stable nocturnal boundary layer as observed by Doppler lidar during CASES-99,” J. Atmos. Sci. 30, 16–33 (2003).
20. B. Cushman-Roisin, “Kelvin–Helmholtz instability as a boundary-value problem,” Environ. Fluid Mech. 5, 507–525 (2005).
21. R. B. Smith, “Gravity wave effects on wind farm efficiency,” Wind Energy 13, 449–458 (2009).
22. M. Kallistratova, R. Kouznetsov, D. Kuznetsov, et al., “Summertime low-level jet characteristics measured by sodars over rural and urban areas,” Meteorol. Z. 18 (3), 289–295 (2009).
23. M. A. Kallistratova and R. D. Kouznetsov, “Low-level jets in the Moscow region in summer and winter observed with a sodar network,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 143, 159–175 (2012).
24. E. E. Gossard, J. H. Richter, and D. R. Jensen, “Effect of wind shear on atmospheric wave instabilities revealed by FM/CW radar observations,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 4, 113–131 (1973).
25. W. T. Cronenwett, G. B. Walker, and R. L. Inman, “Acoustic sounding of meteorological phenomena in the planetary boundary layer,” J. Appl. Meteorol. 11, 1351–1358 (1972).
26. F. F. Hall, “Acoustic remote sensing of temperature and velocity structure in the atmosphere,” in Proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute, Statistical Methods and Instrumentation in Radio Meteorology, Apri1 15–22, 1971, Ed. by A. G. Kjelaas (Teknologisk Forlag, Oslo, 1971), pp. 167–180.
27. M. A. Kallistratova and I. V. Petenko, “Aspect sensitivity of sound backscattering in the atmospheric boundary layer,” Appl. Phys. B 57, 41–48 (1993).
28. V. I. Tatarskiì, The Effects of the Turbulent Atmosphere on Wave Propagation (Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1971).
29. D. Chapman and K. A. Browning, “Radar observations of wind-shear splitting within evolving atmospheric Kelvin–Helmholtz billows,” Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 123, 1433–1439 (1997).
30. R. L. Coulter and M. A. Kallistratova, “The role of acoustic sounding in a high technology era,” Meteorol. Atmos. Phys. 71, 3–13 (1999).
31. S. Argentini, G. Mastrantonio, I. Petenko, et al., “Use of high-resolution sodar to study surface-layer turbulence at night,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 143, 177–188 (2012).
32. R. D. Kouznetsov, “Latan-3 sodar for investigation of the atmospheric boundary layer,” Atmos. Oceanic Opt., 20(8), 684–687 (2007).
33. M. A. Kallistratova, R. D. Kouznetsov, V. F. Kramar, and D. D. Kuznetsov, “Profiles of vertical wind speed variances within nocturnal low-level jets observed with a sodar,” J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 30, 1970–1977 (2013).
34. E. Gossard and W. Hooke, Waves in the Atmosphere (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1975).
35. J. J. Hicks and J. K. Angell, “Radar observations of breaking gravitational waves in the visually clear atmosphere,” J. Appl. Meteorol. 7, 114–121 (1968).
36. V. S. Lyulyukin and D. D. Kuznetsov, “Features of Kelvin–Helmholtz billows in low-level jets derived from sodar data,” in Extended Abstracts of 16th ISARS, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 5–8, 2012, pp. 150–152.
37. D. Atlas, J. I. Metcalf, J. H. Richter, and E. E. Gossard, “The birth of CAT and microscale turbulence,” J. Atmos. Sci. 27, 903–913 (1970).
38. W. H. Hooke, F. F. Hall, and E. E. Gossard, “Observed generation of an atmospheric gravity wave by shear instability in the mean flow of the planetary boundary layer,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 5, 29–41 (1973).
39. A. G. Kjelaas, D. W. Beran, W. H. Hooke, and B. R. Bean, “Waves observed in the planetary boundary layer using an array of acoustic sounders,” J. Atmos. Sci. 31, 2040–2045 (1974).
40. L. Eymard and A. Weill, “A study of gravity waves in the planetary boundary layer by acoustic sounding,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 17, 231–245 (1979).
41. R. L. Coulter, “A case study of turbulence in the stable nocturnal boundary layer,” Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 5, 75–91 (1990).
42. V. S. Lyulyukin, R. D. Kouznetsov, and M. A. Kallistratova, “The composite shape and structure of braid patterns in Kelvin–Helmholtz billows observed with a sodar,” J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 30, 2704–2711 (2013).
43. R. M. Banta, “Stable-boundary-layer regimes from the perspective of the low-level jet,” Acta Geophys. 56, 58–87 (2008).