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The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) of equatorial winds on Earth is the clearest example of the spontaneous emergence of a periodic phenomenon in geophysical fluids. In recent years, observations have revealed intriguing disruptions of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-05 Antoine Renaud , Louis-Philippe Nadeau , Antoine Venaille

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 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

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

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 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

This paper describes stratospheric waves in ERA5 reanalysis and evaluates the contributions of different types of waves to the driving of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO). Because of its higher spatial resolution compared to its…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Hamid A. Pahlavan , John M. Wallace , Qiang Fu , George N. Kiladis

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

Quasi-biennial oscillations (QBOs) are considered as a fundamental mode of solar magnetic activity at low latitudes ($\leq50^\circ$). However, the evolutionary aspect and the hemispheric distribution of solar QBOs at high latitudes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 L. H. Deng , Y. Fei , H. Deng , Y. Mei , F. Wang

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

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 looked for signatures of Quasi-Biennial Periodicity (QBP) over different phases of solar cycle by means of acoustic modes of oscillation. Low-degree p-mode frequencies are shown to be sensitive to changes in magnetic activity due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Simoniello , W. Finsterle , D. Salabert , R. A. García , S. Turck-Chièze , A. Jiménez , M. Roth

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

The Holton-Lindzen-Plumb model describes the spontaneous emergence of mean flow reversals in stratified fluids. It has played a central role in understanding the quasi-biennial oscillation of equatorial winds in Earth's stratosphere and has…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-02 Antoine Renaud , Antoine Venaille

This work builds on a recently developed self-consistent synchronization model of the solar dynamo which attempts to explain Rieger-type periods, the Schwabe/Hale cycle and the Suess-de Vries and Gleissberg cycles in terms of resonances of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 F. Stefani , G. M. Horstmann , G. Mamatsashvili , T. Weier

Fluid dynamics induced by periodically forced flow around a cylinder is analyzed computationally for the case when the forcing frequency is much lower than the von K{\'a}rm{\'a}n vortex shedding frequency corresponding to the constant flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Bryan Glaz , Igor Mezic , Maria Fonoberova , Sophie Loire

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

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
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