American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2016, 36(8): 4495-4516. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.4495

Global well-posedness of strong solutions to a tropical climate model

 1 Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel 2 Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 3368-TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3368, United States

Received  April 2015 Revised  October 2015 Published  March 2016

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the TROPICAL CLIMATE MODEL derived by Frierson--Majda--Pauluis in [15], which is a coupled system of the barotropic and baroclinic modes of the velocity and the typical midtropospheric temperature. The system considered in this paper has viscosities in the momentum equations, but no diffusivity in the temperature equation. We establish here the global well-posedness of strong solutions to this model. In proving the global existence of strong solutions, to overcome the difficulty caused by the absence of the diffusivity in the temperature equation, we introduce a new velocity $w$ (called the pseudo baroclinic velocity), which has more regularities than the original baroclinic mode of the velocity. An auxiliary function $\phi$, which looks like the effective viscous flux for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, is also introduced to obtain the $L^\infty$ bound of the temperature. Regarding the uniqueness, we use the idea of performing suitable energy estimates at level one order lower than the natural basic energy estimates for the system.
Citation: Jinkai Li, Edriss Titi. Global well-posedness of strong solutions to a tropical climate model. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2016, 36 (8) : 4495-4516. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.4495
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