Rossby radius of deformation

In atmospheric dynamics and physical oceanography, the Rossby radius of deformation is the length scale at which rotational effects become as important as buoyancy or gravity wave effects in the evolution of the flow about some disturbance.[1]

For a barotropic ocean, the Rossby radius is , where is the gravitational acceleration, is the water depth, and is the Coriolis parameter.[2]

For f = 1×10−4 s−1 appropriate to 45° latitude, g = 9.81 m/s2 and D = 4 km, LR ≈ 2000 km; using the same latitude and gravity but changing D to 40 m; LR ≈ 200 km.

The nth baroclinic Rossby radius is:

, where is the Brunt–Väisälä frequency, is the scale height, and n = 1, 2, ....

In Earth's atmosphere, the ratio N/f0 is typically of order 100, so the Rossby radius is about 100 times the vertical scale height, H. For a vertical scale associated with the height of the tropopause, LR, 1 ≈ 1000 km, which is the predominant scale seen on weather charts for cyclones and anticyclones. This is commonly called the synoptic scale.

In the ocean, the Rossby radius varies dramatically with latitude. Near the equator it is larger than 200 km, while in the high latitude regions it is less than 10 km. [3] [4] The size of ocean eddies varies similarly; in low latitude regions, near the equator, eddies are much larger than in high latitude regions.

The associated dimensionless parameter is the Rossby number. Both are named in honor of Carl-Gustav Rossby.

References

  1. ^ Gill, A. E., 1982: Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Academic Press, Orlando, 662 pp.
  2. ^ Cushman-Roisin, B. & Beckers, J.M., 2011: Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Academic Press, Waltman, p. 275
  3. ^ Chelton, D. B., DeSzoeke, R. A., Schlax, M. G., El Naggar, K., & Siwertz, N. (1998). Geographical Variability of the First Baroclinic Rossby Radius of Deformation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 28(3), 433–460. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0433:GVOTFB>2.0.CO;2
  4. ^ Nurser, A. J. G., & Bacon, S., 2014, The Rossby radius in the Arctic Ocean, Ocean Sci., 10, 967-975, doi: 10.5194/os-10-967-2014

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