DNS of Structural Vacillation in the transition to geostrophic turbulence

Advances in Turbulence XI - Proceedings of the 11th EUROMECH European Turbulence Conference (2007) 432-434

Authors:

WG Früh, P Maubert, PL Read, A Randriamampianina

Abstract:

The onset of small-scale fluctuations around a steady convection pattern in a rotating baroclinic annulus filled with air is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS). In previous laboratory experiments of baroclinic waves, such fluctuations have been associated with Structural Vacillation which is regarded as the first step in the transition to fully-developed geostrophic turbulence. Here we present an analysis which focusses on the small-scale features.

Editorial

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley 133:622 (2007) 1-1

Authors:

Peter L Read, Ian Roulstone

Assimilation of thermal emission spectrometer atmospheric data during the Mars Global Surveyor aerobraking period

ICARUS 192:2 (2007) 327-347

Authors:

Stephen R Lewis, Peter L Read, Barney J Conrath, John C Pearl, Michael D Smith

Dynamics of convectively driven banded jets in the laboratory

JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 64:11 (2007) 4031-4052

Authors:

Peter L Read, Yasuhiro H Yamazaki, Stephen R Lewis, Paul D Williams, Robin Wordsworth, Kuniko Miki-Yamazaki

GCM representation of turbulence on Jupiter

SPRINGER PROC PHYS 117 (2007) 582-584

Authors:

LC Zuchowski, YH Yamazaki, PL Read