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- Title
Linear Stability of Moist Convecting Atmospheres. Part I: From Linear Response Functions to a Simple Model and Applications to Convectively Coupled Waves.
- Authors
ZHIMING KUANG
- Abstract
A procedure is presented to systematically construct simple models for the linear stability of moist convecting atmospheres. First, linear response functions of a cumulus ensemble constructed from cloud-systemresolving models are coupled with matrices expressing two-dimensional large-scale linear wave dynamics. For a radiative-convective equilibrium reference state, this model gives two branches of unstable modes: a propagating convectively coupled wave branch and a stationary branch related to storage of columnintegrated moist static energy (MSE). The stationary branch is unstable only when radiative feedback is included, while the convectively coupled wave branch is less affected by radiative feedback. With a modular order-reduction procedure from control theory, the linear-response-function-based model is reduced to a system of six ordinary differential equations while still capturing the essential features of the unstable modes (eigenvalues and structures). The six-dimensional system is then split into a slow and a fast manifold. The slow manifold (again, reflecting column MSE storage) is essential for the stationary mode but not for the convectively coupled waves. The fast manifold is then transformed into a form similar to that of prior simple models of convectively coupled waves, thus placing those models and the insights derived from them on a firmer footing. The procedure also better quantifies the parameters of such simple models and allows the stability difference between different reference states to be better understood.
- Subjects
ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE feedbacks; CONTROL theory (Engineering); DIFFERENTIAL equations; TROPOSPHERE
- Publication
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2018, Vol 75, Issue 9, p2889
- ISSN
0022-4928
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JAS-D-18-0092.1