Mountain waves and wakes generated by South Georgia: Implications for drag parametrization

SB Vosper - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution simulations of flows over South Georgia (South Atlantic) are used to
increase understanding of the likely influence of small isolated mountainous islands on the …

Dynamics of orographic gravity waves observed in the mesosphere over the Auckland Islands during the Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE)

SD Eckermann, D Broutman, J Ma… - Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract On 14 July 2014 during the Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment
(DEEPWAVE), aircraft remote sensing instruments detected large-amplitude gravity wave …

A Parameterization Scheme Accounting for Nonhydrostatic Effects on the Momentum Flux of Vertically Propagating Orographic Gravity Waves: Formulas and …

X Xu, R Zhang, MAC Teixeira… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
The momentum transport by orographic gravity waves (OGWs) plays an important role in
driving the large-scale circulation throughout the atmosphere and is subject to …

Stratospheric trailing gravity waves from New Zealand

Q Jiang, JD Doyle, SD Eckermann… - Journal of the …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Gravity waves are frequently observed in the stratosphere, trailing long distances from mid-
to high-latitude topography. Two such trailing-wave events documented over New Zealand …

3D numerical simulation of secondary wave generation from mountain wave breaking over Europe

CJ Heale, K Bossert, SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we simulate an observed mountain wave event over central Europe and
investigate the subsequent generation, propagation, phase speeds and spatial scales, and …

Quantifying the effect of horizontal propagation of three-dimensional mountain waves on the wave momentum flux using Gaussian beam approximation

X Xu, J Song, Y Wang, M Xue - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
This work examines the influence of horizontal propagation of three-dimensional (3D)
mountain waves on the wave momentum flux (WMF) within finite domains (eg, the grid cell of …

The South Georgia Wave Experiment: A means for improved analysis of gravity waves and low-level wind impacts generated from mountainous islands

DR Jackson, A Gadian, NP Hindley… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Gravity waves (GWs) play an important role in many atmospheric processes. However, the
observation-based understanding of GWs is limited, and representing them in numerical …

Momentum budget diagnosis and the parameterization of subgrid-scale orographic drag in global GRAPES

Q Chen, X Shen, J Sun, K Liu - Journal of Meteorological Research, 2016 - Springer
The initial tendency approach is used to diagnose systematic errors in global GRAPES
(Global/Regional Assimilation Prediction System), including overly strong westerlies in the …

Another look on the structure of mountain waves: A spectral perspective

X Xu, S Shu, Y Wang - Atmospheric Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Linear wave solutions in the spectral space are analyzed to help understand the structure of
mountain waves. Nonrotating and hydrostatic waves generated in wind with directional …

Radiosonde observations of a wintertime meridional convergence of gravity waves around 60 S in the lower stratosphere

T Moffat‐Griffin, SR Colwell, CJ Wright… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite observations show that there is a wintertime hotspot of gravity wave activity, located
mainly over the ocean, around 60° S in the stratosphere. However, the sources of the gravity …