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Tipo: Artigo de Periódico
Título: Simulating solar near-surface Rossby waves by inverse cascade from supergranule energy
Autor(es): Mausumi Dikpati
Peter A. Gilman
Gustavo Andres Guerrero Eraso
Alexander G. Kosovichev
Scott William McIntosh
Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan
Jörn Warnecke
Teimuraz V. Zaqarashvili
Resumen: Rossby waves are found at several levels in the Sun, most recently in its supergranule layer. We show that Rossby waves in the supergranule layer can be excited by an inverse cascade of kinetic energy from the nearly horizontal motions in supergranules. We illustrate how this excitation occurs using a hydrodynamic shallow-water model for a 3D thin rotating spherical shell. We find that initial kinetic energy at small spatial scales inverse cascades quickly to global scales, exciting Rossby waves whose phase velocities are similar to linear Rossby waves on the sphere originally derived by Haurwitz. Modest departures from the Haurwitz formula originate from nonlinear finite amplitude effects and/or the presence of differential rotation. Like supergranules, the initial small-scale motions in our model contain very little vorticity compared to their horizontal divergence, but the resulting Rossby waves are almost all vortical motions. Supergranule kinetic energy could have mainly gone into gravity waves, but we find that most energy inverse cascades to global Rossby waves. Since kinetic energy in supergranules is three or four orders of magnitude larger than that of the observed Rossby waves in the supergranule layer, there is plenty of energy available to drive the inverse-cascade mechanism. Tachocline Rossby waves have previously been shown to play crucial roles in causing seasons of space weather through their nonlinear interactions with global flows and magnetic fields. We briefly discuss how various Rossby waves in the tachocline, convection zone, supergranule layer, and corona can be reconciled in a unified framework.
Asunto: Sol
Idioma: eng
País: Brasil
Editor: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Institución: UFMG
Departamento: ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA
Tipo de acceso: Acesso Aberto
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac674b
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/60854
Fecha del documento: 2022
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac674b
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: The Astrophysical Journal
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