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The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) of stratospheric winds is the most striking example of mean-flow generation and reversal by the non-linear interactions of internal waves. Previous studies have used an idealized monochromatic forcing to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-30 Pierre Léard , Daniel Lecoanet , Michael Le Bars

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is understood to result from wave-mean-flow interactions, but the reasons for its relative stability remain a subject of ongoing debate. In addition, consensus has yet to be reached regarding the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Xavier Chartrand , Louis-Philippe Nadeau , Antoine Venaille

We explore the anomalous behavior of the equatorial quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in zonal wind which it exhibited, since February 2016. In more detail, QBO interrupted its regular pattern and the eastward stratospheric winds…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Costas A. Varotsos , Nikos V. Sarlis , Maria Efstathiou

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is the dominant mode of variability in the equatorial stratosphere. It is characterized by alternating descending easterly and westerly jets over a period of approximately 28 months. It has long been…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Claire Valva , Edwin P. Gerber

The dynamics and momentum budget of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) are examined in the ERA5 reanalysis and compared with those in ERA-I. Because of ERA5's higher spatial resolution it is capable of resolving a broader spectrum of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hamid A. Pahlavan , Qiang Fu , John M. Wallace , George N. Kiladis

We examine the westward-propagating quasi-biweekly oscillation (QBWO) during boreal summer, with a focus on how background moisture and winds shape its structure and propagation. In dry regions, convection lags the circulation by nearly a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Shubhrangshu Biswas , Jai Sukhatme , Bishakhdatta Gayen

Quasi-biennial oscillations (QBO) are frequently observed in the solar activity indices. However, no clear physical mechanism for the observed variations has been suggested so far. Here we study the stability of magnetic Rossby waves in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. carbonell , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

The Earth's Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a natural example of wave-mean flow interaction and corresponds to the alternating directions of winds in the equatorial stratosphere. It is due to internal gravity waves (IGW) generated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Florentin Daniel , Daniel Lecoanet

The three-dimensional baroclinic quasigeostrophic flow model has been widely used to study basic mechanisms in oceanic flows and climate dynamics. In this paper, we consider this flow model under random wind forcing and time-periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jinqiao Duan , Bjorn Schmalfuss

Observations have shown that there exists downward propagation of alternating westward/eastward jets in Jupiter's equatorial stratosphere, with a quasi-period between four and six years. This phenomenon is generally called the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yuchen Lian , Xianyu Tan , Yongyun Hu

Observations of planets throughout our Solar System have revealed that the Earth is not alone in possessing natural, inter-annual atmospheric cycles. The equatorial middle atmospheres of the Earth, Jupiter and Saturn all exhibit a…

The Sun's magnetic field shows the 11-year solar cycle and shorter periodicities, popularly known as the quasi-biennial oscillations (QBOs) and Rieger-type periods, or ``season of the Sun." Although several theories have been proposed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Pawan Kumar , Belur Ravindra , Partha Chowdhury , Bidya Binay Karak

We studied the temporal evolution of quasi-biennial oscillations (QBOs) using acoustic mode oscillation frequencies from the Global Oscillation Network Group. The data used here span over more than 25 yr, covering solar cycles 23 and 24 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Kiran Jain , Partha Chowdhury , Sushanta C. Tripathy

Quasi-biennial oscillations (QBOs) are shorter-term periodic signals that occur alongside the dominant 11-year solar cycle. In this study, we examine the spatial and temporal evolution of QBOs using helioseismic p-mode frequency shifts from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Amir Hasanzadeh , Anne-Marie Broomhall , Dmitrii Kolotkov , Tishtrya Mehta

We investigated the solar cycle dependency on the presence and periodicity of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO). Using helioseismic techniques, we used solar oscillation frequencies from the Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 T. Mehta , K. Jain , S. C. Tripathy , R. Kiefer , D. Kolotkov , A. -M. Broomhall

This study aims to provide further evidence for the potential influence of the global solar magnetic field on localised chromospheric jets, the macrospicules (MS). To find a connection between the long-term variation of properties of MS and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 T. S. Kiss , R. Erdelyi

Quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is a well-known quasi-periodical variation with characteristic time 0.5-4 years in different solar, heliospheric and cosmic ray characteristics. In this paper a hypothesis is checked on the causes of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 M. Krainev , G. Bazilevskaya , M. Kalinin , A. Svirzhevskaya , N. Svirzhevsky

Quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) of solar magnetic activities is intrinsic to dynamo mechanism, but still far from fully understood. In this work, the phase and amplitude asymmetry of solar QBO of Halpha flare activity in the northern and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 L. H. Deng , X. J. Zhang , G. Y. Li , H. Deng , F. Wang

We investigate the spherical harmonic degree (l) dependence of the "seismic" quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) observed in low-degree solar p-mode frequencies, using Sun-as-a-star Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) data. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. -M. Broomhall , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , R. Simoniello

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are an important key to understand the dynamic behavior of astrophysical objects during transient events like gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and magnetar flares. Searches for QPOs often use the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Moritz Huebner , Daniela Huppenkothen , Paul D. Lasky , Andrew R. Inglis
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