The Physical Mechanism of CISK and the Free-Ride Balance
The Physical Mechanism of CISK and the Free-Ride Balance
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CISK 的物理机制与搭便车平衡
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1989
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通讯作者:
J. McBride
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K. Fraedrich;J. McBride
Abstract The properties of the “free-ride” assumption of balance between diabatic heating and adiabatic cooling are investigated by incorporating it into the classical two-level CISK (Conditional Instability of the Second Kind) model of Charney and Eliassen. The free-ride model is found to give a CISK-type instability when the heating amplitude exceeds the modified static stability (s−aξ). The free-ride solution is very similar in structure to the CISK solution, except that the free-ride growth rate is independent of scale. Inspection of the classical CISK model reveals that its growth rate is also independent of scale over the range of scales for which the instability is efficient, and over this range of scales the free-ride and the classical models are essentially identical. This leads to a new physical interpretation of CISK. Given that the cumulonimbus heating rate is proportional (through the Ekman pumping effect) to the low-level vorticity, the CISK mechanism is interpreted in terms of a balance and...