SA33A:
Polar Gravity Wave Dynamics and Effects II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States and David C Fritts, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Co-conveners:  Irfan Azeem, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, David C Fritts, GATS Inc., Boulder, CO, United States and Takuji Nakamura, National Inst of Polar Res., Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Irfan Azeem, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates LLC, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Constraining the Parameterization of Polar Inertia Gravity Waves in WACCM with Observations
Anne K Smith1, Damian J Murphy2, Rolando R Garcia3 and Douglas Edward Kinnison1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, TAS, Australia, (3)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
1:55 PM
 
Deep vertical propagation of mountain waves above Scandinavia
Andreas Dörnbrack1, Benjamin Witschas1, Stephan Rahm1, Sonja Gisinger2, Markus Rapp2, Gerd Baumgarten3, Gunter Stober3, Franz-Josef Luebken3, Peggy Achtert4, Benedikt Ehard5, Jorg Gumbel6, Rigel Kivi7 and Johannes Wagner8, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR, Oberphaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (4)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (6)Stockholm Univ, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (8)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2:25 PM
 
The Summer Mesopause Region at Davis, Antarctica 2010 – 2012
Josef Höffner, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
2:40 PM
 
Investigating Seasonal Gravity Wave Activity in the Summer Polar Mesosphere
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 Jr, 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
2:55 PM
 
The South Georgia Wave Experiment (SG-WEX) - Preliminary Satellite and Modelling Studies
Corwin Wright, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom and Nicholas J Mitchell, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
3:10 PM
 
A Study of Thermospheric Gravity Wave Activity Based on the Analysis of Tromsø Dynasonde Data
Nikolay A Zabotin1,2, Catalin Negrea1,3, Oleg A Godin2,4, Michael T Rietveld5, Terence W Bullett6 and Liudmila Zabotina1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, SWPC, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA-Earth System Rsrch Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)EISCAT Scientific Association Tromsø, Ramfjordbotn, Norway, (6)CIRES - NOAA/NGDC, Boulder, CO, United States
3:25 PM
 
Evidence at Mesospheric Altitude of Deeply Propagating Atmospheric Gravity Waves Created by Orographic Forcing over the Auckland Islands (50.5ºS) During the Deepwave Project
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, UT, United States, (2)Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NRL, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (6)GATS Inc., Boulder, CO, United States
 
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