On a Quasi-Invariant Associated with the Emergence of Anisotropy in Two-Dimensional Turbulence on a Rotating Sphere
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- SAITO Izumi
- Department of Scientific and Engineering Simulation, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan
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- ISHIOKA Keiichi
- Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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To provide a theoretical explanation for the emergence of zonally elongated structures from two-dimensional turbulence on a rotating sphere, a quasi-invariant of the system is obtained by a minimization process, which is a straightforward extension of a similar process proposed by a previous study on β-plane turbulence to the spherical geometry. The quasi-invariant is defined as a weighted sum of the energy density in the wavenumber space. The distribution of the weighting coefficient has airfoil-shaped contours, with which the anisotropic energy transfer that favors zonally elongated structures can be explained.<br> Large number of numerical time-integrations of decaying two-dimensional turbulence on a rotating sphere are conducted to examine the conservation of the quasi-invariant. It is shown that the quasi-invariant is conserved well when the nonlinearity of the system is sufficiently weak; furthermore, energy is transferred in the wavenumber space apparently along the airfoil-shaped contours of the weighting coefficient for the quasi-invariant.
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- 気象集誌. 第2輯
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気象集誌. 第2輯 94 (1), 25-39, 2016
公益社団法人 日本気象学会
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- 1390001206503968000
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- NII論文ID
- 130005131465
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- AA00702524
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- 21869057
- 00261165
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- 027136811
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