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On the Discrete Normal Modes of Quasigeostrophic Theory

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 52, 期 2, 页码 243-259

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AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0199.1

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Rossby waves; Differential equations; Fourier analysis

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  1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce [NA18OAR4320123]

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The discrete baroclinic modes in quasigeostrophic theory are incomplete and result in a loss of information during the projection process. By considering the traditional Rossby wave problem with prescribed buoyancy gradients, a complete normal-mode basis can be obtained. The study also examines the quasigeostrophic vertical velocity modes and derives a complete basis for these modes. These findings have significant implications for the development of wave-interaction theory of geostrophic turbulence that incorporates topography.
The discrete baroclinic modes of quasigeostrophic theory are incomplete, and the incompleteness manifests as a loss of information in the projection process. The incompleteness of the baroclinic modes is related to the presence of two previously unnoticed stationary step-wave solutions of the Rossby wave problem with flat boundaries. These step waves are the limit of surface quasigeostrophic waves as boundary buoyancy gradients vanish. A complete normal-mode basis for quasigeostrophic theory is obtained by considering the traditional Rossby wave problem with prescribed buoyancy gradients at the lower and upper boundaries. The presence of these boundary buoyancy gradients activates the previously inert boundary degrees of freedom. These Rossby waves have several novel properties such as the presence of multiple modes with no internal zeros, a finite number of modes with negative norms, and the fact that their vertical structures form a basis capable of representing any quasigeostrophic state with a differentiable series expansion. These properties are a consequence of the Pontryagin-space setting of the Rossby wave problem in the presence of boundary buoyancy gradients (as opposed to the usual Hilbert-space setting). We also examine the quasigeostrophic vertical velocity modes and derive a complete basis for such modes as well. A natural application of these modes is the development of a weakly nonlinear wave-interaction theory of geostrophic turbulence that takes topography into account.

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