SA13A:
Atmospheric Gravity Wave Dynamics and Vertical Coupling from Their Sources to Their Altitudes of Dissipation III Posters


Session ID#: 8369

Session Description:
Gravity waves play central roles in vertical coupling throughout the atmosphere. Their major sources include orography, convection, frontal systems, jet streams, and secondary generation due to momentum transport and instability dynamics. Their transports of energy and momentum to higher altitudes play central roles in the dynamics, structure, and variability from the stratosphere into the mesosphere and thermosphere, but these processes are poorly understood at present.  

 

This session solicits papers focusing on recent measurement programs and modeling studies addressing the full spectrum of gravity wave dynamics from local to global scales. Presentations are encouraged that describe gravity wave source dynamics, propagation in variable environments, instabilities and turbulence, momentum transport and deposition, and multi-scale interactions.

Primary Convener:  David C Fritts, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States
Conveners:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State University, CASS, Logan, UT, United States and Andreas Dörnbrack, DLR, Atmospheric Sciences, Munich, Germany
Chairs:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States and Pierre-Dominique Pautet, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3363 Stratospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3379 Turbulence [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3384 Acoustic-gravity waves [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Concentric Gravity Waves over Northern China Observed by a No-Gap OH Airglow Imager Network and Satellites (58776)
Jiyao Xu1, Q Li2, Jia Yue3, Lars Hoffmann4, William C. Straka5, Steven D Miller6, Wei Yuan2 and Xiao Liu7, (1)National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)National Space Science Center, Beijing, China, (3)Hampton University, Hampton, United States, (4)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich Supercomputing Center, Jülich, Germany, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China
Stratospheric and mesospheric concentric gravity waves over tropical cyclone Mahasen: Joint AIRS and VIIRS satellite observations (62116)
Jia Yue, Hampton University, Hampton, United States, Steven D Miller, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Lars Hoffmann, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich Supercomputing Center, Jülich, Germany and William C. Straka, University of Wisconsin Madison, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, United States
Five-day Waves in Polar Stratosphere and Mesosphere Temperature and Mesospheric Ice Water Measured by SOFIE/AIM (62177)
Xiao Liu, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China and Jia Yue, Hampton University, Hampton, United States
A Correlation Study on Sources of Inertia-Gravity Waves Observed with Lidar in the Antarctic Middle and Upper Atmosphere at McMurdo. (80451)
Cao Chen1, Xinzhao Chu2, Jian Zhao3, Brendan R Roberts4, Weichun Fong3, Zhibin Yu3, Xian Lu5, John A Smith6 and Andreas Dörnbrack7, (1)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, Colorado, United States, (3)CIRES, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Clemson University, Physics and Astronomy, Clemson, SC, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)DLR, Atmospheric Sciences, Munich, Germany
Improvement of stratospheric balloon positioning and the impact on Antarctic gravity wave parameter estimation (80845)
Weixing Zhang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, La Jolla, CA, United States, Jennifer S Haase, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Albert Hertzog, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique-IPSL CNRS/PSL-ENS/Sorbonne Université/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Yidong Lou, Wuhan University, GNSS Research Center, Wuhan, China and Robert A Vincent, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Does Weak Turbulence Impact PMSEs’ Strengths Closer To The Northern Pole? (74740)
Nimalan Swarnalingam1, Wayne K Hocking2, Diego Janches1 and Michael J Nicolls3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (3)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Effect of Gravity Waves Generated in the Monsoon Region on Polar Mesospheric Clouds (63824)
Brentha Thurairajah1, Scott Martin Bailey1, Justin N Carstens2 and David E Siskind3, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States
Zonally uniform tidal oscillations in the tropical middle atmosphere (76628)
Takatoshi Sakazaki1, Takuya Sasaki1, Masato Shiotani1, Yoshihiro Tomikawa2 and Douglas Edward Kinnison3, (1)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Measurement of Gravity Wave Forcing over the Andes Lidar Observatory (30.3ºS) (86618)
Fabio Vargas and Gary R Swenson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Duration of Gravity Waves in OH Airglow Layer Observed by an All-sky Airglow Imager at Maui and Cerro Pachón (73194)
Bing Cao, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Alan Z Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and Chester S. Gardner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - UIUC, Urbana, United States
A Climatology of Ripple Instabilities in the OH Airglow at Cerro Pachon, Chile (70685)
Lynette J Gelinas1, James H Hecht2, Richard L Walterscheid1 and Richard J Rudy2, (1)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)The Aerospace Corporation, Space Science Applications Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Statistics and Physics of Stratospheric Gravity Wave Attenuation over New Zealand (67558)
Christopher Gary Kruse, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Ronald B Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Influence of a stratospheric turbulence layer on the penetration of mountain waves into the middle atmosphere (74260)
Andreas Dörnbrack1, Martina Bramberger2, Markus Rapp3, Johannes Wagner4, Bernd Kaifler4 and Natalie Kaifler4, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhoffen, Germany, (2)North West Research Associates, Boulder, United States, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany
Mesospheric Mountain Wave Breaking and Oceanic Wave Signatures During DEEPWAVE (83864)
Michael J Taylor1, Pierre-Dominique Pautet2, David C Fritts3, James D Doyle4, Stephen D Eckermann5, Bifford Preston Williams3, Bernd Kaifler6, Katrina Bossert7 and Neal Criddle8, (1)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States, (4)NRL, Monterey, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (8)Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States
Critical Layers, Breaking, and Secondary Gravity Wave Generation in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Observed During the DEEPWAVE Campaign (63766)
Katrina Bossert1, David C Fritts2, Pierre-Dominique Pautet3, Bifford Preston Williams2 and Michael J Taylor4, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (4)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Modeling the Observable Signatures and Effects of Short Period Gravity Waves at Large Amplitudes (82169)
Jonathan B Snively, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Direct Numerical Simulations of Small-Scale Gravity Wave Instability Dynamics in Variable Stratification and Shear (80818)
Tyler Mixa1, David C Fritts2, Brian Laughman2, Ling Wang2 and Lakshmi H Kantha3, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
A Case Study of a Mesoscale Gravity Wave in the MLT Region Using Simultaneous Multi-instruments in Beijing (64703)
Mingjiao Jia1, Xianghui Xue2, Xiankang Dou1, Yihuan Tang1, Chao Yu1, Jianfei Wu1, Jiyao Xu3, Guotao Yang4, Baiqi Ning5 and Lars Hoffmann6, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (3)National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)National Space Science Center, Beijing, China, (5)Ins. of Geology and Geophysics, Beijing, China, (6)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich Supercomputing Center, Jülich, Germany
A regional study of atmospheric gravity waves using the USArray Transportable Array (79709)
Michael A H Hedlin1, Claudia Stephan2, Catherine D de Groot-Hedlin1, M Joan Alexander3 and Lars Hoffmann4, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, United States, (4)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich Supercomputing Center, Jülich, Germany
Interhemispheric coupling caused by the Holton-Tan effect – a dependence on the solar cycle (59101)
Vivien Matthias and Erich Becker, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
Inferring the mesosphere/lower thermosphere wind field variability from a multi-station multi-frequency meteor radar network (62642)
Gunter Stober1, Jorge Luis Chau1, Christoph Jacobi2, Sven Wilhelm1 and Ralph Latteck3, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Radar Remote Sensing, Kühlungsborn, Germany
A study of the modulation of semidiurnal tide associated with mesospheric gravity waves observed with Poker Flat MF radar (85709)
Takenari Kinoshita1, Yasuhiro Murayama2 and Seiji Kawamura1, (1)NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Integrated Science Data System Research Lab., Tokyo, Japan
Simultaneous Antarctic Gravity Wave Observations in PMCs from the AIM Satellite and PMSE Observations from PANSY Radar (67969)
Megan Elizabeth Buzanowicz, ADNET Systems, Inc., Bethesda, United States, Jia Yue, Hampton University, Hampton, United States, James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Kaoru Sato, The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan, Masashi Kohma, The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan and Takuji Nakamura, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
Variation and Fine Structure of Mesospheric Turbulence Layers as Observed During the MTeX Rocket Experiment (69756)
Gerald A Lehmacher, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Colin Charles Triplett, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States and Boris Strelnikov, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
Model Study of IGW Hotspot Implications for the Middle Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport (78311)
Petr Pisoft1, Petr Šácha2, Christoph Jacobi3 and Friederike Lilienthal3, (1)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, (2)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, (3)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Investigating Gravity Wave-Ionosphere Interactions Using The Transfer Function Model And An Ionosphere Model (73567)
Robert J Bruntz1, Larry J Paxton1, Ethan S Miller1, Gary S Bust2 and Hans G Mayr3, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Based on Double Gaussian Distributional Parameterization of Inertial Gravity Waves in WACCM Model (65883)
Chao Yu1, Xianghui Xue2, Xiankang Dou3 and Jianfei Wu1, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
The spatial distribution characteristics of noise level based on the gPhone gravimeters (66806)
Wei Jin, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan, China

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