Internal gravity waves from atmospheric jets and fronts

R Plougonven, F Zhang - Reviews of Geophysics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For several decades, jets and fronts have been known from observations to be significant
sources of internal gravity waves in the atmosphere. Motivations to investigate these waves …

Global dynamics of the MLT

AK Smith - Surveys in Geophysics, 2012 - Springer
The transition between the middle atmosphere and the thermosphere is known as the MLT
region (for mesosphere and lower thermosphere). This area has some characteristics that …

A comparison between gravity wave momentum fluxes in observations and climate models

MA Geller, MJ Alexander, PT Love… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
For the first time, a formal comparison is made between gravity wave momentum fluxes in
models and those derived from observations. Although gravity waves occur over a wide …

SOUTHTRAC-GW: An airborne field campaign to explore gravity wave dynamics at the world's strongest hotspot

M Rapp, B Kaifler, A Dörnbrack… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The southern part of South America and the Antarctic peninsula are known as the world's
strongest hotspot region of stratospheric gravity wave (GW) activity. Large tropospheric …

GRACILE: A comprehensive climatology of atmospheric gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings

M Ern, QT Trinh, P Preusse, JC Gille… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Gravity waves are one of the main drivers of atmospheric dynamics. The spatial resolution of
most global atmospheric models, however, is too coarse to properly resolve the small scales …

Implications for atmospheric dynamics derived from global observations of gravity wave momentum flux in stratosphere and mesosphere

M Ern, P Preusse, JC Gille… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this work absolute values of gravity wave (GW) momentum flux are derived from global
temperature measurements by the satellite instruments High Resolution Dynamics Limb …

[HTML][HTML] Gravity wave characteristics in the Southern Hemisphere revealed by a high-resolution middle-atmosphere general circulation model

K Sato, S Tateno, S Watanabe… - Journal of the …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Gravity Wave Characteristics in the Southern Hemisphere Revealed by a High-Resolution
Middle-Atmosphere General Circulation Model in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences …

How does knowledge of atmospheric gravity waves guide their parameterizations?

R Plougonven, A de la Cámara… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This note discusses the relation between our knowledge of gravity waves and the
parameterization of their effects in global models. Improving these parameterizations …

[HTML][HTML] Is missing orographic gravity wave drag near 60° S the cause of the stratospheric zonal wind biases in chemistry–climate models?

C McLandress, TG Shepherd… - Journal of the …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Eyring, V., TG Shepherd, and DW Waugh, Eds., 2010: SPARC CCMVal report on the
evaluation of chemistry–climate models. SPARC Rep. 5, WCRP-132, WMO/TD-No. 1526 …

Numerical modeling of the excitation, propagation, and dissipation of primary and secondary gravity waves during wintertime at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic

SL Vadas, E Becker - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the results of the gravity wave (GW)‐resolving, high‐resolution Kühlungsborn
Mechanistic general Circulation Model in July at McMurdo Station (166.69° E and 77.84° S) …