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 …

Internal wave coupling processes in Earth's atmosphere

E Yiğit, AS Medvedev - Advances in Space Research, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a contemporary review of vertical coupling in the atmosphere and
ionosphere system induced by internal waves of lower atmospheric origin. Atmospheric …

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 …

The mesoscale gravity wave response to the 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption: AIRS and MLS satellite observations and source backtracing

M Ern, L Hoffmann, S Rhode… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 15 January 2022, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted violently.
This exceptional event excited a manifold of atmospheric waves. Here, we focus on the …

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 …

Multisensor profiling of a concentric gravity wave event propagating from the troposphere to the ionosphere

I Azeem, J Yue, L Hoffmann, SD Miller… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present near‐simultaneous observations of a gravity wave (GW) event in
the stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere over the South Central United States and …

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; …

Numerical modeling of the generation of tertiary gravity waves in the mesosphere and thermosphere during strong mountain wave events over the Southern Andes

SL Vadas, E Becker - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the effects on the mesosphere and thermosphere from a strong mountain
wave (MW) event over the wintertime Southern Andes using a gravity wave (GW)‐resolving …

Strong gravity waves associated with Tonga volcano eruption revealed by SABER observations

X Liu, J Xu, J Yue, M Kogure - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Using the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry temperature
profiles from January 6 to 21 2022, we studied the mesospheric gravity waves (GWs) …

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) …