Well-posedness and long time dynamics for a quasi-geostrophic ocean-atmosphere model with radiation balance

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Main Authors: Fornasaro, Federico, Kuna, Tobias, Carigi, Giulia
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author Fornasaro, Federico
Kuna, Tobias
Carigi, Giulia
author_facet Fornasaro, Federico
Kuna, Tobias
Carigi, Giulia
contents We investigate a coupled atmosphere-ocean model including the mechanical and thermodynamical interaction between the two fluids for the mid-latitudes. The formulation combines a multilayer quasi-geostrophic dynamical framework with temperature equations incorporating long- and short-wave radiative forcing, as in energy balance models. Within a suitable functional framework, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions, and their continuous dependence on the radiation parameters. We also prove that the long-time dynamics are described by a finite-dimensional global attractor and, moreover, that the system possesses a finite set of determining modes that governs its asymptotic behaviour. In particular, we show that the long-term evolution of the ocean's temperature can be reconstructed solely from observations of the velocity fields across the model's layers.
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spellingShingle Well-posedness and long time dynamics for a quasi-geostrophic ocean-atmosphere model with radiation balance
Fornasaro, Federico
Kuna, Tobias
Carigi, Giulia
Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
35Q86, 35B40, 35B41, 86A08, 76U60
We investigate a coupled atmosphere-ocean model including the mechanical and thermodynamical interaction between the two fluids for the mid-latitudes. The formulation combines a multilayer quasi-geostrophic dynamical framework with temperature equations incorporating long- and short-wave radiative forcing, as in energy balance models. Within a suitable functional framework, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions, and their continuous dependence on the radiation parameters. We also prove that the long-time dynamics are described by a finite-dimensional global attractor and, moreover, that the system possesses a finite set of determining modes that governs its asymptotic behaviour. In particular, we show that the long-term evolution of the ocean's temperature can be reconstructed solely from observations of the velocity fields across the model's layers.
title Well-posedness and long time dynamics for a quasi-geostrophic ocean-atmosphere model with radiation balance
topic Analysis of PDEs
Mathematical Physics
35Q86, 35B40, 35B41, 86A08, 76U60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19556