The effects of zonally varying mean state of equatorial Pacific on planetaryequatorial trapped waves were analytically investigated. A WKB approximation was used with the slowzonal variation hypothesis, acceptable in ...The effects of zonally varying mean state of equatorial Pacific on planetaryequatorial trapped waves were analytically investigated. A WKB approximation was used with the slowzonal variation hypothesis, acceptable in the context of equatorial trapped low-frequencyvariability, and a working space transformation was made to turn the meridional trappedlow-frequency variability, and a working space transformation was made to turn the meridional modeequation into the Weber-Hermite equation in the new space. The inhomoge-neous equatorial wave ductwas proposed and the theoretical results were compared with observation. It matches the real stateof the equatorial Pacific to a certain degree.展开更多
文摘The effects of zonally varying mean state of equatorial Pacific on planetaryequatorial trapped waves were analytically investigated. A WKB approximation was used with the slowzonal variation hypothesis, acceptable in the context of equatorial trapped low-frequencyvariability, and a working space transformation was made to turn the meridional trappedlow-frequency variability, and a working space transformation was made to turn the meridional modeequation into the Weber-Hermite equation in the new space. The inhomoge-neous equatorial wave ductwas proposed and the theoretical results were compared with observation. It matches the real stateof the equatorial Pacific to a certain degree.
