An energy compartment model for propagation, nonlinear interaction, and dissipation of internal gravity waves

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2014
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Schlagworte:
  • Atm/Ocean Structure/ Phenomena
  • Circulation/ Dynamics
  • Internal waves
  • Mixing
  • Models and modeling
  • Parameterization
  • Tides
  • Wave breaking
  • Wave properties
  • Gravity waves
  • Wave energy conversion
  • Global numerical simulations
  • Nonlinear interactions
  • Radiative transfer equations
  • Subharmonic instability
  • Wave-wave interactions
  • Wavebreaking
  • Tidal power
  • bottom topography
  • gravity wave
  • internal wave
  • mixing
  • nonlinear wave
  • numerical model
  • ocean tide
  • oceanic circulation
  • parameterization
  • stratification
  • wave breaking
  • wave energy
  • wave propagation
  • wave scattering
Beschreibung:
  • The recently proposed Internal Wave Dissipation, Energy and Mixing (IDEMIX) model, describing the propagation and dissipation of internal gravity waves in the ocean, is extended. Compartments describing the energy contained in the internal tides and the near-inertial waves at low, vertical wavenumber are added to a compartment of the wave continuum at higher wavenumbers. Conservation equations for each compartment are derived based on integrated versions of the radiative transfer equation of weakly interacting waves. The compartments interact with each other by the scattering of tidal energy to the wave continuum by triad wave-wave interactions, which are strongly enhanced equatorward of 28° due to parametric subharmonic instability of the tide and by scattering to the continuum of both tidal and near-inertial wave energy over rough topography and at continental margins. Global numerical simulations of the resulting model using observed stratification, forcing functions, and bottom topography yield good agreement with available observations. © 2014 American Meteorological Society.
  • The recently proposed Internal Wave Dissipation, Energy and Mixing (IDEMIX) model, describing the propagation and dissipation of internal gravity waves in the ocean, is extended. Compartments describing the energy contained in the internal tides and the near-inertial waves at low, vertical wavenumber are added to a compartment of the wave continuum at higher wavenumbers. Conservation equations for each compartment are derived based on integrated versions of the radiative transfer equation of weakly interacting waves. The compartments interact with each other by the scattering of tidal energy to the wave continuum by triad wave-wave interactions, which are strongly enhanced equatorward of 28° due to parametric subharmonic instability of the tide and by scattering to the continuum of both tidal and near-inertial wave energy over rough topography and at continental margins. Global numerical simulations of the resulting model using observed stratification, forcing functions, and bottom topography yield good agreement with available observations.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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