SA33A:
Polar Gravity Wave Dynamics and Effects II

Session ID#: 3632

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States and David C Fritts, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Co-conveners:  Irfan Azeem, NOAA NESDIS, Office of Space Weather Observations, Lanham, United States, David C Fritts, Global Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS), Boulder, United States and Takuji Nakamura, National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Irfan Azeem, NOAA NESDIS, Office of Space Weather Observations, Lanham, United States
Index Terms:

2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
3332 Mesospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SA33A-01
Constraining the Parameterization of Polar Inertia Gravity Waves in WACCM with Observations (Invited) (13042)
Anne K Smith, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Damian J Murphy, Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, TAS, Australia, Rolando R Garcia, NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States and Douglas Edward Kinnison, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder,CO, United States
SA33A-02
Deep vertical propagation of mountain waves above Scandinavia (21580)
Andreas Dörnbrack1, Benjamin Witschas1, Stephan Rahm1, Sonja Gisinger2, Markus Rapp3, Gerd Baumgarten4, Gunter Stober5, Franz-Josef Luebken5, Peggy Achtert6, Benedikt Ehard7, Jorg Gumbel8, Rigel Kivi9 and Johannes Wagner10, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR, Oberphaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Kühlungsborn, Germany, (5)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (6)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (7)German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (8)Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm, Sweden, (9)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space and Earth Observation Centre, Helsinki, Finland, (10)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
SA33A-03
A Study on the Structure of Barotropic/Baroclinic Instability in the Mesosphere Using a Gravity-wave Resolving General Circulation Model (Invited) (14440)
Kaoru Sato, The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan and Akihiro Masuda, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
SA33A-04
The Summer Mesopause Region at Davis, Antarctica 2010 – 2012 (Invited) (25551)
Josef Höffner, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Optical and Rocket Soundings, Kühlungsborn, Germany and Scientific Team of IAP-Felidar
SA33A-05
Investigating Seasonal Gravity Wave Activity in the Summer Polar Mesosphere (16208)
Yucheng Zhao, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, Cora E Randall, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Jerry D Lumpe, Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, David E Siskind, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, Scott Martin Bailey, VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
SA33A-06
The South Georgia Wave Experiment (SG-WEX) - Preliminary Satellite and Modelling Studies (7499)
Corwin Wright, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom and Nicholas J Mitchell, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
SA33A-07
A Study of Thermospheric Gravity Wave Activity Based on the Analysis of Tromsø Dynasonde Data (25687)
Nikolay A Zabotin1,2, Catalin Negrea1,3, Oleg A Godin4,5, Michael T Rietveld6, Terence W Bullett7 and Liudmila Zabotina1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA-Earth System Rsrch Lab, Boulder, United States, (6)EISCAT Scientific Association Tromsø, Ramfjordbotn, Norway, (7)CIRES - NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, United States
SA33A-08
Evidence at Mesospheric Altitude of Deeply Propagating Atmospheric Gravity Waves Created by Orographic Forcing over the Auckland Islands (50.5ºS) During the Deepwave Project (19523)
Pierre-Dominique Pautet1, Jun Ma2, Michael J Taylor1, Katrina Bossert3, James D Doyle4, Stephen D Eckermann5, Bifford Preston Williams6 and David C Fritts6, (1)Utah State University, Logan, United States, (2)Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (4)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (6)Global Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS), Boulder, United States
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