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Volume 9 Issue 2

Mar.  1992

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Nonlinear Planetary Wave Instability and Blocking


doi: 10.1007/BF02657508

  • The instability of geostrophic wave circulations related to the nonlinear processes involved in the zonal mean heat balance equations is studied. It is found that the planetary waves may be destabilized by thermal forcing in spe-cific baroclinic layers, called the breaking layers. The critical conditions of the instability will be given. In the troposphere, these conditions may be provided in blocking regions and the development of planetary perturbations is characterized distinctly by the unset, maintenance and decay of observed blocks. The whole blocking episode cannot be described as either the barotropic or baroclinic process only. The limitations on the study of wave-wave interaction using spectral models or spectrum analyses will be discussed also.
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    [2] Debashis NATH, Wen CHEN, 2016: Impact of Planetary Wave Reflection on Tropospheric Blocking over the Urals-Siberia Region in January 2008, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 33, 309-318.  doi: 10.1007/s00376-015-5052-4
    [3] LU Weisong, SHAO Haiyan, 2003: Generalized Nonlinear Subcritical Symmetric Instability, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 20, 623-630.  doi: 10.1007/BF02915505
    [4] Luo Dehai, Ji Liren, 1988: ALGEBRAIC ROSSBY SOLITARY WAVE AND BLOCKING IN THE ATMOSPHERE, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 5, 445-454.  doi: 10.1007/BF02656790
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    [6] Ji Zhongzhen, Lin Wantao, Yang Xiaozhong, 2001: Problems of Nonlinear Computational Instability in Evolution Equations, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 18, 397-403.  doi: 10.1007/BF02919318
    [7] Zhu Zhengxin, 1985: EQUILIBRIUM STATES OF PLANETARY WAVES FORCED BY TOPOGRAPHY AND PERTURBATION HEATING AND BLOCKING SITUATION, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 2, 359-367.  doi: 10.1007/BF02677252
    [8] Zhang Pei, Ni Yunqi, 1991: Effect of Nonlinear Dynamic Process on Formation and Breakdown of Blocking, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 8, 41-50.  doi: 10.1007/BF02657363
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    [10] Lu Peisheng, 1992: The Structure and Propagation of Stationary Planetary Wave Packet in the Barotropic Atmosphere, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 9, 157-166.  doi: 10.1007/BF02657506
    [11] Li Guoqing, Robin Kung, Richard L. Pfeffer, 1993: Some Effects of Rotation Rate on Planetary-Scale Wave Flows, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 10, 296-306.  doi: 10.1007/BF02658135
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    [17] LUO Dehai, LIU Jinting, LI Jianping, 2010: Interaction between Planetary-Scale Diffluent Flow and Synoptic-Scale Waves During the Life Cycle of Blocking, ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 27, 807-831.  doi: 10.1007/s00376-009-9074-7
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Nonlinear Planetary Wave Instability and Blocking

  • 1. Dept. of Meteorology, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, U.K.

Abstract: The instability of geostrophic wave circulations related to the nonlinear processes involved in the zonal mean heat balance equations is studied. It is found that the planetary waves may be destabilized by thermal forcing in spe-cific baroclinic layers, called the breaking layers. The critical conditions of the instability will be given. In the troposphere, these conditions may be provided in blocking regions and the development of planetary perturbations is characterized distinctly by the unset, maintenance and decay of observed blocks. The whole blocking episode cannot be described as either the barotropic or baroclinic process only. The limitations on the study of wave-wave interaction using spectral models or spectrum analyses will be discussed also.

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