| Volumes and Issues Contents of Issue 3/4 |
www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/9/333/2002/
doi:10.5194/npg-9-333-2002
© Author(s) 2002. This work is licensed
under a Creative Commons License.
Acoustic-gravity nonlinear structures
1Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 57, Yu-11001 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2Department of Plasma Physics, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden
3Institut fur Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
Abstract. A catalogue of nonlinear vortex structures associated with acoustic-gravity perturbations in the Earth's atmosphere is presented. Besides the previously known Kelvin-Stewart cat's eyes, dipolar and tripolar structures, new solutions having the form of a row of counter-rotating vortices, and several weakly two-dimensional vortex chains are given. The existence conditions for these nonlinear structures are discussed with respect to the presence of inhomogeneities of the shear flows. The mode-coupling mechanism for the nonlinear generation of shear flows in the presence of linearly unstable acoustic-gravity waves, possibly also leading to intermittency and chaos, is presented.
Full Article (PDF, 135 KB)
Citation: Jovanović, D., Stenflo, L., and Shukla, P. K.: Acoustic-gravity nonlinear structures, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 9, 333-339, doi:10.5194/npg-9-333-2002, 2002. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
