Atmospheric gravity waves: Processes and parameterization

U Achatz, MJ Alexander, E Becker… - Journal of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Atmospheric predictability from subseasonal to seasonal time scales and climate variability
are both influenced critically by gravity waves (GW). The quality of regional and global …

Evaluation of polar winter mesopause wind in WACCMX+ DART

VL Harvey, N Pedatella, E Becker… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This work evaluates zonal winds in both hemispheres near the polar winter mesopause in
the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) with thermosphere …

[HTML][HTML] Radar observations of winds, waves and tides in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over South Georgia island (54 S, 36 W) and comparison …

NP Hindley, NJ Mitchell, N Cobbett… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
The mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) is a dynamic layer of the earth's
atmosphere. This region marks the interface at which neutral atmosphere dynamics begin to …

Improving ionospheric predictability requires accurate simulation of the mesospheric polar vortex

VL Harvey, CE Randall, SM Bailey, E Becker… - Frontiers in astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The mesospheric polar vortex (MPV) plays a critical role in coupling the atmosphere-
ionosphere system, so its accurate simulation is imperative for robust predictions of the …

Emulating lateral gravity wave propagation in a global chemistry–climate model (EMAC v2. 55.2) through horizontal flux redistribution

R Eichinger, S Rhode, H Garny… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
The columnar approach of gravity wave (GW) parameterisations in weather and climate
models has been identified as a potential reason for dynamical biases in middle …

On the dynamical importance of gravity wave sources distributed over different heights in the atmosphere

AS Medvedev, GP Klaassen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gravity waves (GWs) are generated at all altitudes in the atmosphere, but sources above the
lower stratosphere are rarely considered by parameterizations employed in general …

Machine Learning for Nonorographic Gravity Waves in a Climate Model

SC Hardiman, AA Scaife, A van Niekerk… - … intelligence for the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
There is growing use of machine learning algorithms to replicate subgrid parameterization
schemes in global climate models. Parameterizations rely on approximations; thus, there is …

Accelerating Atmospheric Gravity Wave Simulations Using Machine Learning: Kelvin‐Helmholtz Instability and Mountain Wave Sources Driving Gravity Wave …

W Dong, DC Fritts, AZ Liu, TS Lund… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gravity waves (GWs) and their associated multi‐scale dynamics are known to play
fundamental roles in energy and momentum transport and deposition processes throughout …

A constrained spectral approximation of subgrid‐scale orography on unstructured grids

R Chew, S Dolaptchiev, MS Wedel… - Journal of Advances in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The representation of subgrid‐scale orography is a challenge in the physical
parameterization of orographic gravity‐wave sources in weather forecasting. A significant …

Evaluation of the Horizontal Winds Simulated by IAP-HAGCM through Comparison with Beijing MST Radar Observations

Y Tian, Z Chai, Z Yu, Z Chen, J Jin - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The performance of general circulation models (GCMs) in simulating horizontal winds is
important because the distribution and variation in horizontal winds are central to …