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Investigation of the Rotational Dynamics of a Two-layer Earth Model under the in Uence of an Oceanic Gyre
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Jalali, Mir Abbas (Supervisor)
Abstract
The planet earth has a variety of periodic motions in space, with periods varying from a day to thousands of years. The essence of studying the rotational motion of our planet is closely related to various phenomena such as, the long term variation of the earth’s climate, volcanic activities, ice ages, earth’s past dynamics, etc. furthermore, understanding the precise motion of the earth is an essential part of our astronomical observations. One of the many kinds of rotational motions, which has attracted many attentions is called Chandler wobble. Any irregularly shaped solid body rotating about some axis that is not aligned with its figure axis will wobble as it rotates. Although it has...
Interaction of Large-scale Oceanic Currents and the Earth’s Wobble
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Jalali, Abbas (Supervisor) ; Behzad, Mehdi (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
In this thesis, we investigate interactions of a double-gyre in the North Atlantic and the earth’s Chandler wobble using a single-layer ocean model based on depth-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and multiple-scale spectral solutions to it. The overall transfers of energy and angular momentum from the double-gyre to the Chandler wobble are used to calibrate the turbulence parameters of the idealized ocean model and Smagorinsky eddy viscosity is used to estimate turbulent diffusion terms. Our model is tested against a multilayer quasi-geostrophic ocean model in turbulent regime, and base states used in parameter identification are obtained from mesoscale eddy resolving numerical simulations....