PowerPoint Presentation - On the two-point correlation of potential vorticity in rotating and stratified turbulence Susan Kurien - Los Alamos National Laboratory Leslie Smith - University of Wisconsin Beth Wingate

NCAR TOY - February 2008

The nonlinear operator

Three wave resonances means we must choose k’ and k’’ such that

You can show that the interaction coefficients are zero for the fast-fast interaction. Which means that the slow dynamics evolves independently of the fast.