A closer look at chaotic advection in the stratosphere: part I: geometric structureNgan, K. and Shepherd, T. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-9968 (1999) A closer look at chaotic advection in the stratosphere: part I: geometric structure. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56 (24). pp. 4134-4152. ISSN 1520-0469
It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<4134:ACLACA>2.0.CO;2 Abstract/SummaryThe relevance of chaotic advection to stratospheric mixing and transport is addressed in the context of (i) a numerical model of forced shallow-water flow on the sphere, and (ii) a middle-atmosphere general circulation model. It is argued that chaotic advection applies to both these models if there is suitable large-scale spatial structure in the velocity field and if the velocity field is temporally quasi-regular. This spatial structure is manifested in the form of “cat’s eyes” in the surf zone, such as are commonly seen in numerical simulations of Rossby wave critical layers; by analogy with the heteroclinic structure of a temporally aperiodic chaotic system the cat’s eyes may be thought of as an “organizing structure” for mixing and transport in the surf zone. When this organizing structure exists, Eulerian and Lagrangian autocorrelations of the velocity derivatives indicate that velocity derivatives decorrelate more rapidly along particle trajectories than at fixed spatial locations (i.e., the velocity field is temporally quasi-regular). This phenomenon is referred to as Lagrangian random strain.
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