Caustic consideration of long planetary wave packet analysis in the continuously stratified ocean英文文献资料.docVIP

IJMMS 25:1 (2001) 63–72 PII.S0161171201005002 ?Hindawi Publishing Corp. CAUSTICCONSIDERATIONOFLONGPLANETARYWAVE PACKETANALYSISINTHECONTINUOUSLY STRATIFIEDOCEAN ARTHUR D.GORMAN andHUIJUN YANG (Received 19April 2000) Abstract. The wave packet method, one form of the WKB technique, recently has been employed to investigate the evolution of long planetary wave packets in relation to the complex climate variability intheworld oceans. However, such amethod becomes invalid near the caustics. Here, the Lagrange manifold formalism is used to extend this analysis toinclude thecaustic regions. Weconclude thateventhough thewavepacketmethod fails nearthecaustics, theequations derived fromthismethod awayfromcaustics areidentical tothe ones from the Lagrange manifold formalism near caustics. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation. Primary 76B65, 76M45, 86A05. 1. Introduction. Recently, wave packet theory has been used by Yang [10, 11] in twostudiestoanalyzetheevolutionoflongplanetarywavepackets.Inthe?rststudy, the evolution oflong planetary wave packets inacontinuously strati?ed ocean with exponentially decaying strati?cation and mean zonal current was considered. The analysis successfully explained all major features of long planetary Rossby waves recentlyobservedintheTopex/Poseidon satellitedataintheglobalocean.Inthesec- ondstudy,theevolutionofthree-dimensional wavepacketsinasubtropicalgyrewas studied.Thisanalysisledtoarudimentarytheoryforoceanclimatevariabilityonthe inter-annualtodecadaltimescaleobservedintheseasurfaceheightchangesandthe ocean temperature changes and provided insight of dynamical process of complex ocean climate variability. The ocean response may undergo transition between dif- ferent regimes. The transition of regime may be one more reason that the observed climatevariabilityintheoceanissocomplicatedwithavarietyoftimescalesbetween interannual and decadal. These predictions are consistent with observations in the NorthPaci?candotheranalyticandnumeric