The barotropic Rossby waves with topography on the earth’s δ-surface

Author(s):  
Jian Song ◽  
ShaoXia Liu

AbstractThe Rossby solitary waves in the barotropic vorticity model which contains the topography on the earth’s δ-surface is investigated. First, applying scale analysis method, obtained the generalized quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation (QGPVE). Using The Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin (WKB) theory, the evolution equation of Rossby waves is the variable-coefficient Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation for the barotropic atmospheric model. In order to study the Rossby waves structural change to exist in some basic flow and topography on the δ-surface approximation, the variable coefficient of KdV equation must be explicitly, Chebyshev polynomials is used to solve a Sturm-Liouville-type eigenvalue problem and the eigenvalue Rossby waves, these solutions show that the parameter δ usually plays the stable part in Rossby waves and slow down the growing or decaying of Rossby waves with the parameter β.

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1735-1748 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. T. M. Verkley

Abstract A global version of the equivalent barotropic vorticity equation is derived for the one-layer shallow-water equations on a sphere. The equation has the same form as the corresponding beta plane version, but with one important difference: the stretching (Cressman) term in the expression of the potential vorticity retains its full dependence on f 2, where f is the Coriolis parameter. As a check of the resulting system, the dynamics of linear Rossby waves are considered. It is shown that these waves are rather accurate approximations of the westward-propagating waves of the second class of the original shallow-water equations. It is also concluded that for Rossby waves with short meridional wavelengths the factor f 2 in the stretching term can be replaced by the constant value f02, where f0 is the Coriolis parameter at ±45° latitude.


Author(s):  
Jian-Gen Liu ◽  
Xiao-Jun Yang ◽  
Yi-Ying Feng ◽  
Lu-Lu Geng

In this paper, we studied the generalized space and time fractional Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation in the sense of the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative. Initially, the symmetry of this considered equation through the symmetry analysis method was obtained. Next, a one-parameter Lie group of point transformation was yielded. Then, this considered fractional model can be translated into an ordinary differential equation of fractional order via the Erdélyi–Kober fractional differential operator and the Erdélyi–Kober fractional integral operator. Finally, with the help of the nonlinear self-adjointness, conservation laws of the generalized space and time fractional KdV equation can be found. This approach can provide us with a new scheme for studying space and time differential equations of fractional derivative.


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