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- Title
On the Validity of the β-Plane Approximation in the Dynamics and the Chaotic Advection of a Point Vortex Pair Model on a Rotating Sphere.
- Authors
Drótos, Gábor; Tél, Tamás
- Abstract
The dynamics of modulated point vortex pairs is investigated on a rotating sphere, where modulation is chosen to reflect the conservation of angular momentum (potential vorticity). In this setting the authors point out a qualitative difference between the full spherical dynamics and the one obtained in a β-plane approximation. In particular, dipole trajectories starting at the same location evolve to completely different directions under these two treatments, despite the fact that the deviations from the initial latitude remain small. This is a strong indication for the mathematical inconsistency of the traditional β-plane approximation. At the same time, a consistently linearized set of equations of motion leads to trajectories agreeing with those obtained under the full spherical treatment. The β-plane advection patterns due to chaotic advection in the velocity field of finite-sized vortex pairs are also found to considerably deviate from those of the full spherical treatment, and quantities characterizing transport properties (e.g., the escape rate from a given region) strongly differ.
- Subjects
VORTEX motion; ANGULAR momentum (Mechanics); ROTATIONAL motion; APPROXIMATION theory; SPHERICAL motion; ADVECTION
- Publication
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2015, Vol 72, Issue 1, p415
- ISSN
0022-4928
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JAS-D-14-0101.1