Abstract
It is well known that internal or Rossby waves propagating across a jet can be amplified, a phenomenon usually referred to as over-reflection. In some cases, over-reflection can be infinitely strong – physically, this means that the reflected and transmitted waves can exist without an incident one, i.e. they are spontaneously emitted by the mean flow. In this article, it is shown that infinitely strong over-reflection (resonant over-reflection) occurs for gravity-wave scattering by ageostrophic jets in a rotating barotropic ocean and Rossby-wave scattering by a two-jet configuration on the quasigeostrophic beta-plane. It is further demonstrated that, generally, a resonantly over-reflected wave is always marginal to instability, i.e. either an increase or a decrease of its wavenumber transforms it into an unstable eigenmode localised near the jet.
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