Impacts of orography on large-scale atmospheric circulation

I Sandu, A van Niekerk, TG Shepherd… - npj Climate and …, 2019 - nature.com
Some of the largest and most persistent circulation errors in global numerical weather
prediction and climate models are attributable to the inadequate representation of the …

100 years of progress on mountain meteorology research

RB Smith - Meteorological Monographs, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mountains significantly influence weather and climate on Earth, including disturbed surface
winds; altered distribution of precipitation; gravity waves reaching the upper atmosphere; …

Quantifying 3D gravity wave drag in a library of tropical convection‐permitting simulations for data‐driven parameterizations

YQ Sun, P Hassanzadeh… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) span a broad range of length scales. As a result, the un‐
resolved and under‐resolved GWs have to be represented using a sub‐grid scale (SGS) …

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 …

Toward transient subgrid-scale gravity wave representation in atmospheric models. Part I: Propagation model including nondissipative wave–mean-flow interactions

G Bölöni, YH Kim, S Borchert… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Current gravity wave (GW) parameterization (GWP) schemes are using the steady-state
assumption, in which an instantaneous balance between GWs and mean flow is postulated …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale dynamics of the interaction between waves and mean flows: From nonlinear WKB theory to gravity-wave parameterizations in weather and climate …

U Achatz, YH Kim, GS Voelker - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The interaction between small-scale waves and a larger-scale flow can be described by a
multi-scale theory that forms the basis for a new class of parameterizations of subgrid-scale …

MS-GWaM: A Three-Dimensional Transient Gravity Wave Parametrization for Atmospheric Models

GS Voelker, G Bölöni, YH Kim… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Parameterizations for internal gravity waves in atmospheric models are traditionally subject
to a number of simplifications. Most notably, they rely on both neglecting wave propagation …

Global distributions of tropospheric and stratospheric gravity wave momentum fluxes resolved by the 9-km ECMWF experiments

J Wei, F Zhang, JH Richter… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Based on 20-day control forecasts by the 9-km Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) at the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) for selected periods of …

[HTML][HTML] Toward transient subgrid-scale gravity wave representation in atmospheric models. Part II: Wave intermittency simulated with convective sources

YH Kim, G Bölöni, S Borchert… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
In a companion paper, the Multiscale Gravity Wave Model (MS-GWaM) has been introduced
and its application to a global model as a transient subgrid-scale parameterization has been …

Towards a more “scale‐aware” orographic gravity wave drag parametrization: Description and initial testing

A Van Niekerk, SB Vosper - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many current orographic gravity wave drag parametrizations employed in numerical weather
prediction and climate models assume idealised elliptical subgrid orography. As a result …