In this paper the influences of nonuniform stratification on the propagating paths of internal inertial-gravity and pure gravity wave energy are discussed by using the WKB approximation method.The conditions for conse...In this paper the influences of nonuniform stratification on the propagating paths of internal inertial-gravity and pure gravity wave energy are discussed by using the WKB approximation method.The conditions for conservation of wave energy,generalized wave action and wave enstrophy are obtained.The necessary condition of instability for inter- nal gravity waves and the equation governing the refraction of wave rays are derived.Two types of critical levels are giv- en.Finally,the wave rays for different distributions of stratification are calculated by using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.展开更多
基金This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘In this paper the influences of nonuniform stratification on the propagating paths of internal inertial-gravity and pure gravity wave energy are discussed by using the WKB approximation method.The conditions for conservation of wave energy,generalized wave action and wave enstrophy are obtained.The necessary condition of instability for inter- nal gravity waves and the equation governing the refraction of wave rays are derived.Two types of critical levels are giv- en.Finally,the wave rays for different distributions of stratification are calculated by using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.
