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Dan Whitt
dw494@cam.ac.uk
D. B. Whitt and L. N. Thomas, 2015: Resonant
Generation and Energetics of Wind-Forced Near-Inertial
Motions in a Geostrophic Flow. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45,
181208.
Inertial Oscillations
Inertial
Frequency:
f 2sin(latitude)
angular frequency of
Force
Diagram
Coriolis
force
u
fv 0
t
v
fu 0
t
Blue is larger/pink is
smaller!
Scale
Wave scales
<< 1
Larger geostrophic
scale
Parameteriz
ed
Radiative
Decay/Local
Dissipation
Wind
Stress/Bo
dy Force
(see also Pollard & Millard 1970, Stern 1975, Weller 1982, Klein & Hua 1988, Klein
Resonant frequencyF
Dynamics
ug
f f
Energeti
cs
F
0
2
t
(T)
vdt
0
Equivalent
Lagrangian
Description
A v
1 Rog
v F
2
t F 2
Phase/ensem
ble avg.
u
f f g .5 f
y
u
f f g .5 f
y
Resonant frequen
F
u
f f g .5 f
y
wind =F
wind
s
ug
Rog2
LSP
4(1 Rog )
~ WORK
Rog2
4(1 Rog )
24 h
Oscillatory
Wind
Forcing
=0, =/2
=0.5f
Force
d
F = 0.5f =
Unforced Spindown
2
v / 2 dV
Part of Wave Activity
[
]
f 110 4 s1, N 2 2 10 5 s2
wave activity
AdV F N dV
2
t
v F N
2
Initial wave
activity u2
v
2
0
1 Rog
dV
wdt
0