Xiang Jie, Sun Litan. 2002: Nonlinear Saturation of Baroclinic Instability in the Phillips Model: The Case of Energy. ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 19(6): 1079-1090. DOI: 10.1007/s00376-002-0066-0
Citation: Xiang Jie, Sun Litan. 2002: Nonlinear Saturation of Baroclinic Instability in the Phillips Model: The Case of Energy. ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 19(6): 1079-1090. DOI: 10.1007/s00376-002-0066-0

Nonlinear Saturation of Baroclinic Instability in the Phillips Model: The Case of Energy

  • A conservation law for the Phillips model is derived. Using this law, the nonlinear saturation of purely baroclinic instability caused by the vertical velocity shear of the basic flow in the Phillips model-the case of energy-is studied within the context of Arnold's second stability theorem. Analytic upper bounds on the energy of wavy disturbances are obtained. For one unstable region in the parameter plane, the result here is a second-order correction in ε to Shepherd's; For another unstable region, the analytic upper bound on the energy of wavy disturbances offers an effective constraint on wavy (nonzonal) disturbances φ'i at any time.
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