General Properties of Thermal-Relaxation Rate Equations

1973 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3487-3487
Author(s):  
M. W. P. Strandberg ◽  
J. R. Shane
1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 4809-4812 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. P. Strandberg ◽  
J. R. Shane

1992 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 5179-5186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kubát ◽  
Jan‐Fredrik Jansson ◽  
Mats Delin ◽  
Josef Kubát ◽  
Rodney W. Rychwalski ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1137-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Greenslade ◽  
P. H. Haynes

Abstract Numerical simulations in multilevel baroclinic turbulence in a β-plane channel model are discussed, focusing on the transport and mixing behavior. The temperature field in the model is relaxed toward a field consistent with a broad zonal jet with vertical shear that is a Gaussian function of the cross-channel coordinate. The resulting statistical equilibrium flow includes an active baroclinic eddy field. The transport and mixing properties are analyzed by considering the fields of potential vorticity and a passive tracer (from which effective diffusivities/equivalent lengths are calculated). The upper part of the flow organizes itself in such a way that there is a transport barrier in the center of the channel, with eddy mixing regions on either side. In the lower part of the flow the eddy mixing occurs across a single broad region, with no central transport barrier. The transition between these two regimes takes place abruptly at a height zT. A large set of simulations is used to map out the variation of zT as a function of external parameters including β, the thermal relaxation rate κT, and the (lower boundary) frictional relaxation rate κM (applied in the lowest model layer only). The transition height zT is argued to be relevant to sharp vertical transitions in transport and mixing observed in atmospheric and oceanic flows.


1993 ◽  
Vol 48 (21) ◽  
pp. 15823-15828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Klik ◽  
Ching-Ray Chang ◽  
Huei Li Huang

1995 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 3053-3055
Author(s):  
J. Lee ◽  
Ivo Klik ◽  
Ching-Ray Chang

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