Instability Dynamics and Turbulent Mixing Efficiency from 3-D Direct Numerical Simulations of Gravity Wave Packet Breaking in A Mesopause Inversion Layer

Ling Wang1, David C Fritts1, Brian Laughman1, Thomas Lund2 and Richard L Collins3, (1)GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States, (2)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States