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Near-inertial-wave scattering by random flows

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: A homogeneous and stationary random process is used to describe scattering of near-inertial-waves by a geostrophic flow. The authors focus their studies on waves whose phase varies on the same horizontal scale as that of the geostrophic flow and demonstrate that scattering redistributes energy only between waves of equal wavenumbers, corresponding to equal-frequency waves in the shallow-water system.

Source: Physical Review Fluids

DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.1.033701

Authors: Eric Danioux, Jacques Vanneste

Institutions: Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Subfield: Oceanography

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Sight Research UK, Natural Environment Research Council

Awards: G5206763360, High-resolution modelling of near-inertial waves in the ocean, G6966276241