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Ice melting into saline water plays a fundamental role in the dynamics near the ice-ocean interface in polar oceans. The physics of ice melting involves a non-trivial interplay between thermodynamics at the interface, hydrodynamic transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sofía Allende , Louis-Alexandre Couston , Simon Thalabard , Benjamin Favier

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

Star-planet tidal interactions play a significant role in the dynamical evolution of close-in planetary systems. We investigate the propagation and dissipation of tidal inertial waves in a stellar/planetary convective region. We take into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 A. Astoul , S. Mathis , C. Baruteau , Q. André

The interfacial internal waves are formed at the pycnocline or thermocline in the ocean and are influenced by the Coriolis force due to the Earth's rotation. A derivation of the model equations for the internal wave propagation taking into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-04 Joseph Cullen , Rossen Ivanov

We experimentally study linear and nonlinear waves on the surface of a fluid covered by an elastic sheet where both tension and flexural waves take place. An optical method is used to obtain the full space-time wave field, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-10 Luc Deike , Jean-Claude Bacri , Eric Falcon

We report an experimental study of the instability of a nearly-resonant Kelvin mode forced by precession in a cylindrical vessel. The instability is detected above a critical precession ratio via the appearance of peaks in the temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-13 Johann Herault , Andre Giesecke , Thomas Gundrum , Frank Stefani

Wind-forced near-inertial waves (NIWs) propagate through a sea of mesoscale eddies, which can fundamentally alter their evolution. The nature of this NIW--mesoscale interaction depends on how dispersive the waves are. For weakly dispersive…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Scott Conn , Jörn Callies

We show that capillary waves can exist at the the boundary between miscible co-flowing fluids. We unveil that the interplay between transient interfacial stresses and confinement drives the progressive transition from the well-known…

The understanding of the statistical properties and of the dynamics of multistable systems is gaining more and more importance in a vast variety of scientific fields. This is especially relevant for the investigation of the tipping points…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Valerio Lucarini , Davide Faranda , Matteo Willeit

We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

The stability of atmospheric stratified fluids is revisited to study the influence of the temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity due to thermal expansion in the Earth's lower atmosphere (with heights $0$ to $50$ km) under the action of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 T. D. Kaladze , A. P. Misra

Weakly nonlinear internal wave-wave interaction is a key mechanism that cascades energy from large to small scales, leading to ocean turbulence and mixing. Oceans typically have a non-uniform density stratification profile; moreover,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Saranraj Gururaj , Anirban Guha

Understanding local currents in the North Atlantic region of the ocean is a key part of modelling heat transfer and global climate patterns. Satellites provide a surface signature of the temperature of the ocean with a high horizontal…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Gautier Cosne , Guillaume Maze , Pierre Tandeo

Abyssal hills, arguably the most extensive coherent pattern in Earth's surface topography, record the spacing of normal faults formed at mid-ocean ridges. At fast-spreading ridges, high-resolution bathymetry shows a pronounced spectral peak…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Richard F Katz , Peter Huybers

We derive the nonlinear fractional surface wave equation that governs compression waves at an interface that is coupled to a viscous bulk medium. The fractional character of the differential equation comes from the fact that the effective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Kappler , Shamit Shrivastava , Matthias F. Schneider , Roland R. Netz

Understanding how turbulence enhances irreversible scalar mixing in density-stratified fluids is a central problem in geophysical fluid dynamics. While isotropic overturning regions are commonly the focus of mixing analyses, we here…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-20 Miles M. P. Couchman , Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops , Colm-cille P. Caulfield

Turbulence and large-scale waves in the tropical region are studied using the spherical shallow water equations. With mesoscale vorticity forcing, both moist and dry systems show kinetic energy scaling that is dominated by rotational modes,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Schröttle , D. L. Suhas , N. Harnik , J. Sukhatme

We study electromagnetic streaming instabilities in thermal viscous regions of rotating astrophysical objects, such as, protostellar and protoplanetary magnetized accretion disks, molecular clouds, their cores, and elephant trunks. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 A. K. Nekrasov

Observations from the RAPID array near 26.5$^\circ$N indicate a linear decline in the AMOC over the past two decades, linked to contrasting boundary changes: a weakening western boundary contribution partly compensated by strengthening at…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Qianjiang Xing , Shane Elipot , William E. Johns , Bablu Sinha , Jules Kajtar , Adam T. Blaker , Tillys Petit , Ben I. Moat , David A. Smeed

The influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) and its amplitude on the Euro-Mediterranean summer climate is studied in two climate models, namely CNRM-CM5 and EC-Earth3P. Large ensembles of idealized experiments have been…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Saïd Qasmi , Emilia Sanchez-Gomez , Yohan Ruprich-Robert , Julien Boé , Christophe Cassou