Theoretical explanation intensification of low frequency (LF) internal gravity waves (IGW) is presented. The method used is based on generalizing results on shear flow phenomena from the hydrodynamics community. In the 1990s, it was realized that fluctuation modes of spectrally stable nonuniform sheared flows are non-normal. That is, the linear operators of the flows modal analysis are non-normal and the corresponding eigenmodes are not orthogonal. The non-normality results in linear transient growth with bursts of the perturbations and the mode coupling, which causes the amplification of LF IG waves shear flow driven ionospheric plasma and generation of the higher frequency oscillations. Transient growth substantially exceeds the growth of the classical dissipative trapped-particle instability of the system.
Linear evolution of IGW structures in the ionospheri plasma at interaction with shear flows
Chargazia, Khatuna; Kharshiladze, Oleg; Kvaratskhelia, Diana; Zimbardo, Gaetano; Sorriso-Valvo, Luca
Journal:
Bulletin of TICMI 23 (1),
pp. 67 - 75
Year:
2019
ISTP Authors: Luca Sorriso-Valvo
Keywords: Gravity waves, Self organisation into vortical structures
Research Activitie: JOURNAL ARTICLES
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