Polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE): Review of observations and current understanding

M Rapp, FJ Lübken - Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 2004 - acp.copernicus.org
Polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE) are very strong radar echoes primarily studied in
the VHF wavelength range from altitudes close to the polar summer mesopause. Radar …

Layering accompanying turbulence generation due to shear instability and gravity‐wave breaking

DC Fritts, C Bizon, JA Werne… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We describe and compare idealized high‐resolution simulations of turbulence arising due to
Kelvin‐Helmholtz shear instability and gravity‐wave breaking, believed to be the two major …

On the nature of PMSE: Electron diffusion in the vicinity of charged particles revisited

M Rapp, FJ Lübken - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Triggered by recent experimental evidence showing that some parts of the Cho et al.[1992]
theory describing electron diffusion in the vicinity of charged aerosol particles cannot be …

Turbulence parameter estimations from high-resolution balloon temperature measurements of the MUTSI-2000 campaign

NM Gavrilov, H Luce, M Crochet… - Annales …, 2005 - angeo.copernicus.org
Turbulence parameters in the tropo-stratosphere are analyzed using high-resolution balloon
temperature measurements collected during the MUTSI (MU radar, Temperature sheets and …

Icy particles in the summer mesopause region: Three‐dimensional modeling of their environment and two‐dimensional modeling of their transport

U Berger, U Von Zahn - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In summertime, layers of icy particles form in the high‐latitude mesopause region, causing
the phenomena of noctilucent clouds and polar mesosphere summer echoes. We study the …

Numerical modeling of multiscale dynamics at a high Reynolds number: Instabilities, turbulence, and an assessment of Ozmidov and Thorpe scales

DC Fritts, L Wang, MA Geller… - Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
A high–Reynolds number direct numerical simulation (DNS) is employed to explore the
instability and turbulence dynamics accompanying an idealized multiscale flow that …

Gravity wave–fine structure interactions. Part I: Influences of fine structure form and orientation on flow evolution and instability

DC Fritts, L Wang, JA Werne - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Four idealized direct numerical simulations are performed to examine the dynamics arising
from the superposition of a monochromatic gravity wave (GW) and sinusoidal linear and …

High-resolution observations and modeling of turbulence sources, structures, and intensities in the upper mesosphere

DC Fritts, L Wang, G Baumgarten, AD Miller… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
New capabilities for imaging small-scale instabilities and turbulence and for modeling
gravity wave (GW), instability, and turbulence dynamics at high Reynolds numbers are …

Enhanced gravity-wave activity and interhemispheric coupling during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS northern summer program 2002

E Becker, DC Fritts - Annales Geophysicae, 2006 - angeo.copernicus.org
We present new sensitivity experiments that link observed anomalies of the mesosphere
and lower thermosphere at high latitudes during the MaCWAVE/MIDAS summer program …

Gravity wave dynamics in a mesospheric inversion layer: 1. Reflection, trap**, and instability dynamics

DC Fritts, B Laughman, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An anelastic numerical model is employed to explore the dynamics of gravity waves (GWs)
encountering a mesosphere inversion layer (MIL) having a moderate static stability …