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When atmospheric storms pass over the ocean, they resonantly force near-inertial waves (NIWs); internal waves with a frequency close to the local Coriolis frequency $f$. It has long been recognised that the evolution of NIWs is modulated by…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Scott Conn , Jörn Callies , Albion Lawrence

The evolution of wind-generated near-inertial waves (NIWs) is known to be influenced by the mesoscale eddy field, yet it remains a challenge to disentangle the effects of this interaction in observations. Here, the model of Young and Ben…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Scott Conn , Joseph Fitzgerald , Jörn Callies

The interactions between near-inertial waves (NIWs) and submesoscale currents in the surface ocean are challenging to deconvolve due to their overlapping temporal and spatial scales. The frequency of NIW is modulated by the relative…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nihar Paul , Amala Mahadevan

Wind forcing injects energy into the mesoscale eddies and near-inertial waves (NIWs) in the ocean, and the NIW is believed to solve the puzzle of mesoscale energy budget by absorbing energy from mesoscale eddies followed by a forward…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-05 Jin-Han Xie

The propagation of inertio-gravity waves (IGW) into the deep-sea is relevant for energy transfer to turbulence where waves break, and thus for redistribution of nutrients, oxygen and suspended matter. In constant stratification, vertical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Hans van Haren

This study describes a specific type of critical layer for near-inertial waves (NIWs) that forms when isopycnals run parallel to sloping bathymetry. Upon entering this slantwise critical layer, the group velocity of the waves decreases to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Lixin Qu , Leif N. Thomas , Robert D. Hetland

The topic of interface effects in wave propagation has attracted great attention due to their theoretical significance and practical importance. In this paper we study nonlinear oscillatory systems consisting of two media separated by an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaohua Cui , Xiaoqing Huang , Zhoujian Cao , Hong Zhang , Gang Hu

The internal-wave (IW) continuum of a regional ocean model is studied in terms of the vertical spectral kinetic-energy (KE) fluxes and transfers at high vertical wavenumbers. Previous work has shown that this model permits a partial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Joseph Skitka , Brian K. Arbic , Ritabrata Thakur , Dimitris Menemenlis , William R. Peltier , Yulin Pan , Kayhan Momeni , Yuchen Ma

Laboratory experimental results are presented for nonlinear Internal Solitary Waves (ISW) propagation in deep water configuration with miscible fluids. The results are validated against direct numerical simulations and traveling wave exact…

Wind forcing of the ocean generates a spectrum of inertia-gravity waves that is sharply peaked near the local inertial (or Coriolis) frequency. The corresponding near-inertial waves (NIWs) are highly energetic and play a significant role in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jin-Han Xie , Jacques Vanneste

The impact of a turbulent flow on wind-driven oceanic near-inertial waves is examined using a linearised shallow-water model of the mixed layer. Modelling the flow as a homogeneous and stationary random process with spatial scales…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Eric Danioux , Jacques Vanneste

Nine years of mesospheric wind data from two meteor radars at 52{\deg}N latitude were analyzed to investigate planetary waves (PWs) and tides by estimating their zonal wavenumber through longitudinal phase differences. Our results reveal…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Maosheng He , Jeffrey M. Forbes , Gunter Stober , Christoph Jacobi , Guozhu Li , Libo Liu , Jiyao Xu

The results of field work on drift ice during wave propagation are analyzed and presented. The field work was performed in the Barents Sea, and the main focus of the paper is on wave processes in the MIZ. A model of wave damping in broken…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Aleksey Marchenko , Peter Wadhams , Clarence O Collins , Jean Rabault , Mikhail Chumakov

Fronts and near-inertial waves are energetic motions in the upper ocean that can interact and provide a route for kinetic energy (KE) dissipation of balanced oceanic flows. A quasilinear model is developed to study the KE exchanges between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Subhajit Kar , Roy Barkan

Consistency relations of internal gravity waves (IGWs) describe ratios of cross-spectral quantities as functions of frequency. It has been a common practice to evaluate the measured or simulated signals (e.g., time series of velocity,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Guangyao Wang , Yue Wu , Yulin Pan , Kayhan Momeni , Joseph Skitka , Dimitris Menemenlis , Brian K. Arbic , William R. Peltier

Intermediate-mass main sequence stars have large radiative envelopes overlying convective cores. This configuration allows internal gravity waves (IGWs) generated at the convective-radiative interface to propagate towards the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. P. Ratnasingam , P. V. F. Edelmann , T. M. Rogers

High-frequency wave propagation in near-inertial wave shear has been considered fundamental in setting the spectral character of the oceanic internal wave continuum and for transporting energy to wave-breaking. We compare idealized ray…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Kurt L Polzin , Yuri V Lvov

Ocean motions at frequencies of the internal wave band are generally associated with freely propagating waves that are supported by stable vertical stratification in density. Previous analyses of yearlong current observations from the Bay…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Hans van Haren , Leo Maas

Atmospheric transient eddies and low-frequency flow contribution to the ocean surface wave climate in the North Atlantic during boreal winter is investigated (1980 - 2016). We conduct a set of numerical simulations with a state-of-the-art…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Margarita Markina , Josh Studholme , Sergey Gulev

Interaction between energy-abundant (sub-)mesoscale eddies and internal waves can lead to turbulence generation and may prove important for replenishment of nutrients for deep-sea life and circulation. However, observational evidence of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Hans van Haren
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