Mathematical and physical ideas for climate science

V Lucarini, R Blender, C Herbert… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The climate is a forced and dissipative nonlinear system featuring nontrivial dynamics on a
vast range of spatial and temporal scales. The understanding of the climate's structural and …

Global ocean integrals and means, with trend implications

C Wunsch - Annual review of marine science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the ocean requires determining and explaining global integrals and
equivalent average values of temperature (heat), salinity (freshwater and salt content), sea …

[HTML][HTML] A description of local and nonlocal eddy–mean flow interaction in a global eddy-permitting state estimate

R Chen, GR Flierl, C Wunsch - Journal of Physical …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Description of Local and Nonlocal Eddy–Mean Flow Interaction in a Global Eddy-Permitting
State Estimate in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 44 Issue 9 (2014) Jump to …

[KİTAP][B] Thermodynamic foundations of the Earth system

A Kleidon - 2016 - books.google.com
Thermodynamics sets fundamental laws for all physical processes and is central to driving
and maintaining planetary dynamics. But how do Earth system processes perform work …

A global quantification of the physical processes leading to near‐surface cold extremes

M Röthlisberger, L Papritz - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Kinematic backward trajectories are used to globally quantify the contributions of
temperature advection, adiabatic compression and diabatic processes to near‐surface …

Canonical transfer and multiscale energetics for primitive and quasigeostrophic atmospheres

X San Liang - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The past years have seen the success of a novel and rigorous localized multiscale
energetics formalism in a variety of ocean and engineering fluid applications. In a self …

Dynamics of multilayer Rayleigh–Taylor instability at moderately high Atwood numbers

P Suchandra, D Ranjan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates the multilayer Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) using statistically
stationary experiments conducted in a gas tunnel. Employing diagnostics such as particle …

[HTML][HTML] Biases in Thorpe-scale estimates of turbulence dissipation. Part II: Energetics arguments and turbulence simulations

A Scotti - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Biases in Thorpe-Scale Estimates of Turbulence Dissipation. Part II: Energetics Arguments and
Turbulence Simulations in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 45 Issue 10 (2015) …

Storm-track shifts under climate change: Toward a mechanistic understanding using baroclinic mean available potential energy

C Mbengue, T Schneider - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Zonal-mean storm-track shifts in response to perturbations in climate occur even in idealized
simulations of dry atmospheres with axisymmetric forcing. Nonetheless, a generally …

Efficient mixing in stratified flows: experimental study of a Rayleigh–Taylor unstable interface within an otherwise stable stratification

MSD Wykes, SB Dalziel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Boussinesq salt-water laboratory experiments of Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) can
achieve mixing efficiencies greater than 0.75 when the unstable interface is confined …