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This article deals with the investigation of the influence of topography and coastlines on the dynamics of the depth averaged Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), driven by wind and atmospheric pressure. This is achieved with the help of a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir N. Stepanov

This paper looks at the two-layer ocean model from a wave turbulence perspective. A symmetric form of the two-layer kinetic equation for Rossby waves is derived using canonical variables, allowing the turbulent cascade of energy between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Katie L Harper , Sergey V Nazarenko , Sergey B Medvedev , Colm Connaughton

The study is motivated by recent findings of the decrease in the momentum transfer from strong winds to sea. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) of a three-fluid system of air, foam and water is examined within the range of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-09-20 Yuri M. Shtemler , Ephim Golbraikh , Michael Mond

In recent years, coronal loops have been the focus of studies related to the damping of different magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) surface waves and their connection with coronal seismology and wave heating. For a better understanding of wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 K. Karampelas , T. Van Doorsselaere , M. Guo

The diurnal variability of sea surface temperature (SST) may play an important role for cloud organization above the tropical ocean, with implications for precipitation extremes, storminess, and climate sensitivity. Recent cloud-resolving…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Reyk Börner , Jan O. Haerter , Romain Fiévet

We provide a rigorous justification of various kinetic regimes exhibited by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additive stochastic forcing and a viscous dissipation. The importance of such damped-driven models stems from their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ricardo Grande , Zaher Hani

Turbulence in rotating Magneto-hydrodynamic systems is studied theoretically and numerically. In the linear limit, when the velocity and magnetic perturbations are small, the system supports two types of waves. When the rotation effects are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicholas Bell , Sergey Nazarenko

It follows from the review on classical wave models that the asymmetry of crest and trough is the direct cause for wave drift. Based on this, a new model of Lagrangian form is constructed. Relative to the Gerstner model, its improvement is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jin-Liang Wang

The North Atlantic Ocean circulation, fuelled by winds and surface buoyancy fluxes, carries 1.25 PettaWatts of heat poleward in the subtropics, and helps in regulating global weather and climate patterns. Here, we assess the relative…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Dhruv Bhagtani , Andrew McC. Hogg , Ryan M. Holmes , Navid C. Constantinou

Offshore wind is rapidly expanding to meet clean and secure energy needs. New developments are now increasingly constrained to deep seasonally stratified waters. Here, flows past offshore wind infrastructure will increase water column…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-12 Charlie J. Lloyd , Robert M. Dorrell

Nonlinear interaction and breaking of internal ocean waves are responsible for much of the interior ocean mixing, affecting ocean carbon storage and the global overturning circulation. These interactions may affect the observed Garrett-Munk…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Golan Bel , Eli Tziperman

Due to the multitude of scales present in realistic oceanic conditions, resolving the surface stress is computationally intensive, motivating modeling approaches. In this work, a dynamic wave drag model is developed for Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-22 Aditya K. Aiyer , Luc Deike , Michael E. Mueller

A nonlinear stability analysis entirely in the Lagrangian frame is conducted, revealing the fundamental role of the wave-induced mean flow in modifying further wave growth and providing new insight into the classic problem of wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-05 L. R. Seitz , Mara A. Freilich , Nick Pizzo

Magmatism and volcanism transfer carbon from the solid Earth into the climate system. This transfer may be modulated by the glacial/interglacial cycling of water between oceans and continental ice sheets, which alters the surface loading of…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Nestor G. Cerpa , David W. Rees Jones , Richard F. Katz

Simulations with the Max Planck Institute Martian general circulation model for Martian years 28 and 34 reveal details of the water "pump" mechanism and the role of gravity wave (GW) forcing. Water is advected to the upper atmosphere mainly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-14 Dmitry S. Shaposhnikov , Alexander S. Medvedev , Alexander V. Rodin , Erdal Yiğit , Paul Hartogh

The solar torsional oscillations, i.e., the perturbations of the angular velocity of rotation associated with the eleven-year activity cycle, are a manifestation of the interaction among the interior magnetic fields, amplified and modulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonino F. Lanza

When wind blows over the surface of a viscous liquid, a clear transition from irregular small-amplitude streamwise-oriented wrinkles to well-defined nearly two-dimensional regular waves is observed at a critical wind velocity. We examine…

Wave shape (e.g. wave skewness and asymmetry) impacts sediment transport, remote sensing and ship safety. Previous work showed that wind affects wave shape in intermediate and deep water. Here, we investigate the effect of wind on wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Thomas Zdyrski , Falk Feddersen

At kinetic scales in the solar wind, instabilities transfer energy from particles to fluctuations in the electromagnetic fields while restoring plasma conditions towards thermodynamic equilibrium. We investigate the interplay between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Simon Opie , Daniel Verscharen , Christopher H. K. Chen , Christopher J. Owen , Philip A. Isenberg

The interaction of oscillatory wave motion with morphologically complex coral reefs showcases a wide range of consequential hydrodynamic responses within the canopy. While a large body of literature has explored the interaction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-29 Akshay Patil , Clara García-Sánchez