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 …

[HTML][HTML] Modification of the gravity wave parameterization in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model: Motivation and results

RR Garcia, AK Smith, DE Kinnison… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alexander, MJ, and AW Grimsdell, 2013: Seasonal cycle of orographic gravity wave
occurrence above small islands in the Southern Hemisphere: Implications for effects on the …

Secondary gravity waves in the winter mesosphere: Results from a high‐resolution global circulation model

E Becker, SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes a new high‐resolution general circulation model with regard to
secondary gravity waves in the mesosphere during austral winter. The model resolves …

A high‐resolution whole‐atmosphere model with resolved gravity waves and specified large‐scale dynamics in the troposphere and stratosphere

E Becker, SL Vadas, K Bossert… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new version of the HIgh Altitude Mechanistic general Circulation Model
(HIAMCM) with specified dynamics. We utilize a spectral method that nudges only the large …

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 …

Explicit global simulation of gravity waves in the thermosphere

E Becker, SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new version of the high‐resolution Kühlungsborn Mechanistic general
Circulation Model (KMCM) extended to z∼ 450 km. This model is called HIAMCM (HI …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hemispheric contrasts in ice formation in stratiform mixed-phase clouds: disentangling the role of aerosol and dynamics with ground-based remote sensing

M Radenz, J Bühl, P Seifert, H Baars… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Multi-year ground-based remote-sensing datasets were acquired with the Leipzig Aerosol
and Cloud Remote Observations System (LACROS) at three sites. A highly polluted central …

[HTML][HTML] The Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE): An airborne and ground-based exploration of gravity wave propagation and effects from their …

DC Fritts, RB Smith, MJ Taylor… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Alexander, MJ, and AW Grimsdell, 2013: Seasonal cycle of orographic gravity wave
occurrence above small islands in the Southern Hemisphere: Implications for effects on the …

Resolved Gravity Waves in the Extratropical Stratosphere: Effect of Horizontal Resolution Increase from O (10) to O (1) km

I Polichtchouk, A Van Niekerk… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global ECMWF IFS simulations with horizontal grid spacings of 1, 4, and 9 km are used to
assess gravity wave forcing (GWF) in the extratropical stratosphere. Results with important …