TY - JOUR A1 - von Lindheim, Johannes A1 - Harikrishnan, Abhishek A1 - Dörffel, Tom A1 - Klein, Rupert A1 - Koltai, Peter A1 - Mikula, Natalia A1 - Müller, Annette A1 - Névir, Peter A1 - Pacey, George A1 - Polzin, Robert A1 - Vercauteren, Nikki T1 - Definition, detection and tracking of persistent structures in atmospheric flows JF - arXiv N2 - Long-lived flow patterns in the atmosphere such as weather fronts, mid-latitude blockings or tropical cyclones often induce extreme weather conditions. As a consequence, their description, detection, and tracking has received increasing attention in recent years. Similar objectives also arise in diverse fields such as turbulence and combustion research, image analysis, and medical diagnostics under the headlines of "feature tracking", "coherent structure detection" or "image registration" - to name just a few. A host of different approaches to addressing the underlying, often very similar, tasks have been developed and successfully used. Here, several typical examples of such approaches are summarized, further developed and applied to meteorological data sets. Common abstract operational steps form the basis for a unifying framework for the specification of "persistent structures" involving the definition of the physical state of a system, the features of interest, and means of measuring their persistence. Y1 - 2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klein, Rupert A1 - Ebrahimi Viand, Roya A1 - Höfling, Felix A1 - Delle Site, Luigi T1 - Nonequilibrium induced by reservoirs: Physico-mathematical model and numerical tests JF - Advances Theory and Simulation Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.202100071 VL - 4 SP - 2100071 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gholami, Abbas A1 - Höfling, Felix A1 - Klein, Rupert A1 - Delle Site, Luigi T1 - Thermodynamic relations at the coupling boundary in adaptive resolution simulations for open systems JF - Advances Theory and Simulation Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/adts.202000303 VL - 4 SP - 2000303 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Doerffel, Tom A1 - Papke, Ariane A1 - Klein, Rupert A1 - Ernst, Natalia A1 - Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K. T1 - Dynamics of tilted atmospheric vortices under asymmetric diabatic heating JF - Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics N2 - Päschke et al. (J Fluid Mech, 2012) studied the nonlinear dynamics of strongly tilted vortices subject to asymmetric diabatic heating by asymptotic methods. They found, inter alia, that an azimuthal Fourier mode 1 heating pattern can intensify or attenuate such a vortex depending on the relative orientation of the tilt and the heating asymmetries. The theory originally addressed the gradient wind regime which, asymptotically speaking, corresponds to vortex Rossby numbers of order unity in the limit. Formally, this restricts the applicability of the theory to rather weak vortices. It is shown below that said theory is, in contrast, uniformly valid for vanishing Coriolis parameter and thus applicable to vortices up to low hurricane strengths. An extended discussion of the asymptotics as regards their physical interpretation and their implications for the overall vortex dynamics is also provided in this context. The paper’s second contribution is a series of three-dimensional numerical simulations examining the effect of different orientations of dipolar diabatic heating on idealized tropical cyclones. Comparisons with numerical solutions of the asymptotic equations yield evidence that supports the original theoretical predictions of Päschke et al. In addition, the influence of asymmetric diabatic heating on the time evolution of the vortex centerline is further analyzed, and a steering mechanism that depends on the orientation of the heating dipole is revealed. Finally, the steering mechanism is traced back to the correlation of dipolar perturbations of potential temperature, induced by the vortex tilt, and vertical velocity, for which diabatic heating not necessarily needs to be responsible, but which may have other origins. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-021-00591-x VL - 35 IS - 6 SP - 831 EP - 873 ER -