Many observations show that in the Yellow Sea internal tidal waves (ITWs) possess the remarkable characteristics of internal Kelvin wave, and in the South Yellow Sea (SYS) the nonlinear evolution of internal tidal wav...Many observations show that in the Yellow Sea internal tidal waves (ITWs) possess the remarkable characteristics of internal Kelvin wave, and in the South Yellow Sea (SYS) the nonlinear evolution of internal tidal waves is one of the mechanisms producing internal solitary waves (ISWs), which is different from the generation mechanism in the case where the semidiurnal tidal current flows over topographic drops. In this paper, the model of internal Kelvin wave with continuous stratification is given, and an elementary numerical study of nonlinear evolution of ITWs is made for the SYS, using the generalized KdV model (GKdV model for short) for a continuous stratified ocean, in which the different effects of background barotropic ebb and flood currents are considered. Moreover, the parameterization of vertical turbulent mixing caused by ITWs and ISWs in the SYS is studied, using a parameterization scheme which was applied to numerical experiments on the breaking of ISWs by Vlasenko and Hutter in 2002. It is found that the vertical turbulent mixing caused by internal waves is very strong within the upper layer with depth less than about 30m, and the vertical turbulent mixing caused by ISWs is stronger than that by ITWs.展开更多
In order to understand the wave-turbulence interaction under non-hydrostatic conditions to prepare future ad-vanced very-high-resolution ocean reanalysis data,an𝜎-coordinate ocean model-namely,the Marine Envir...In order to understand the wave-turbulence interaction under non-hydrostatic conditions to prepare future ad-vanced very-high-resolution ocean reanalysis data,an𝜎-coordinate ocean model-namely,the Marine Environ-ment Research and Forecasting(MERF)model-with an idealized supercritical slope topography is applied to conduct a series of high-resolution numerical experiments with and without the non-hydrostatic approximation.The popular Mellor-Yamada two-equation turbulence model(MY2.5)is enclosed in MERF to validate its effect on small-scale internal lee waves.Instantaneous results show that the internal lee-wave processes are relaxed through employment of the MY2.5 scheme,whether or not in the non-hydrostatic model.Time averaged results suggest the influences of the vertical mixing parameterization scheme on the numerical results are more dominant than the non-hydrostatic/hydrostatic selection for the large-scale dynamic process.Besides,diagnostic analyses of the energy budget show that the spread of internal lee waves at the slope is dramatically suppressed by the vertical turbulent mixing,indicating more tidal energy is able to be converted into the irreversible mixing when the two-equation turbulence model is employed.展开更多
基金supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41030855
文摘Many observations show that in the Yellow Sea internal tidal waves (ITWs) possess the remarkable characteristics of internal Kelvin wave, and in the South Yellow Sea (SYS) the nonlinear evolution of internal tidal waves is one of the mechanisms producing internal solitary waves (ISWs), which is different from the generation mechanism in the case where the semidiurnal tidal current flows over topographic drops. In this paper, the model of internal Kelvin wave with continuous stratification is given, and an elementary numerical study of nonlinear evolution of ITWs is made for the SYS, using the generalized KdV model (GKdV model for short) for a continuous stratified ocean, in which the different effects of background barotropic ebb and flood currents are considered. Moreover, the parameterization of vertical turbulent mixing caused by ITWs and ISWs in the SYS is studied, using a parameterization scheme which was applied to numerical experiments on the breaking of ISWs by Vlasenko and Hutter in 2002. It is found that the vertical turbulent mixing caused by internal waves is very strong within the upper layer with depth less than about 30m, and the vertical turbulent mixing caused by ISWs is stronger than that by ITWs.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China [grant number 2016YFC1401800]the National Programme on Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction of China [grant number GASI-IPOVAI-04]the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 41876014 and 41606039]。
文摘In order to understand the wave-turbulence interaction under non-hydrostatic conditions to prepare future ad-vanced very-high-resolution ocean reanalysis data,an𝜎-coordinate ocean model-namely,the Marine Environ-ment Research and Forecasting(MERF)model-with an idealized supercritical slope topography is applied to conduct a series of high-resolution numerical experiments with and without the non-hydrostatic approximation.The popular Mellor-Yamada two-equation turbulence model(MY2.5)is enclosed in MERF to validate its effect on small-scale internal lee waves.Instantaneous results show that the internal lee-wave processes are relaxed through employment of the MY2.5 scheme,whether or not in the non-hydrostatic model.Time averaged results suggest the influences of the vertical mixing parameterization scheme on the numerical results are more dominant than the non-hydrostatic/hydrostatic selection for the large-scale dynamic process.Besides,diagnostic analyses of the energy budget show that the spread of internal lee waves at the slope is dramatically suppressed by the vertical turbulent mixing,indicating more tidal energy is able to be converted into the irreversible mixing when the two-equation turbulence model is employed.
