タカヤ コウタロウ   TAKAYA KOTARO
  高谷 康太郎
   所属   京都産業大学  理学部 宇宙物理・気象学科
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 1997/12
形態種別 研究論文
査読 査読あり
標題 A formulation of a wave-activity flux for stationary Rossby waves on a zonally varying basic flow
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
出版社・発行元 AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
巻・号・頁 24(23),pp.2985-2988
著者・共著者 K Takaya,H Nakamura
概要 A new formulation of an approximate conservation relation is proposed for stationary Rossby waves on a zonally varying basic flow, utilizing that A (proportional to wave enstrophy:) and E (proportional to wave energy) are both. related to the wave activity pseudomomentum. For stationary Rossby waves, it is shown in the limit of a small-amplitude: plane wave on a slowly varying: unforced non-zonal flow that a particular linear combination of A and E, namely: M equivalent to (A + E)/2. is independent of the wave phase. even if unaveraged, and is conserved under steady unforced and nondissipative conditions. It is also shown. that the three-dimensional flux of M is parallel to the local group velocity in the WKB limit. The flux could be a useful diagnostic tool, as shown in an example that presents a ''snapshot'' of the three-dimensional propagation of a stationary Rossby wavetrain in the real atmosphere. Our conservation relation is a generalization of that for stationary Rossby waves on a zonally-uniform basic flow derived by Plumb.
ISSN 0094-8276/1944-8007