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Structures of Equatorial Envelope Rossby Wave Under a Generalized External Forcing

FU Zun-Tao,1,2 LIU Shi-Da,1,2 and LIU Shi-Kuo1   


  1. 1 School of Physics, Laboratory for Severe Storm and Flood Disaster, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
    2 State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received: 2004-01-05 Revised: 1900-01-01 Published: 2004-10-15

Abstract: The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS for short) equation with a generalized external heating source is derived for large amplitude equatorial envelope Rossby wave in a shear flow. And then various periodic structures for these equatorial envelope Rossby waves are obtained with the help of a new transformation, Jacobi elliptic functions, and elliptic equation. It is shown that different types of resonant phase-locked diabatic heating play different roles in structures of equatorial envelope Rossby wave.

Key words: NLS, periodic structure, diabatic heating, Jacobi elliptic function

PACS numbers: 

  • 03.65.Ge