SA33A:
Atmospheric Gravity Wave Sources, Propagation, Instabilities, and Regional and Global Effects from the Surface into the Thermosphere and Ionosphere III Posters

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Session ID#: 13072

Session Description:
Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) play central roles in atmospheric dynamics, structure, and variability extending from the Earth’s surface well into the thermosphere and ionosphere.  Despite these roles, there are many aspects GW dynamics and effects that are poorly understood at present.

This session will include invited and contributed talks and posters addressing all aspects of GW dynamics and effects, including, but not limited to, the following:

1)    GW source dynamics, scales, and meteorological and environmental influences,

2)    GW propagation, filtering, wave-mean flow interactions, forcing of the general circulation and thermal structure, and roles in inter-hemispheric coupling,

3)    GW instability dynamics, mixing, and transports of momentum, heat, and constituents,

4)    gravity wave interactions with tides and planetary waves in the stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere,

5)    GW propagation, interactions, and effects impacting the thermosphere and ionosphere, and

6)    recent advances in subgrid-scale GW parameterization schemes.

Primary Convener:  David C Fritts, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States
Conveners:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, Kaoru Sato, The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan and Prof. Erdal Yiğit, PhD., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States and Yucheng Zhao, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yucheng Zhao, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States

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

3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3384 Acoustic-gravity waves [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4490 Turbulence [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The interaction between atmospheric gravity waves and large-scale flows: an efficient description beyond the non-acceleration paradigm (119812)
Ulrich Achatz1, Gergely Boeloeni2, Bruno Ribstein2, Christine Sgoff2 and Junhong Wei2, (1)Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
The interaction between gravity waves and solar tides in a linear tidal model with a 4D ray-tracing gravity-wave parametrization (120053)
Bruno Ribstein, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany and Ulrich Achatz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
Explicit Global Simulation of Gravity Waves up to the Lower Thermosphere (162333)
Erich Becker, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
Fine Structure Influences on Gravity Wave Propagation in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (183687)
Tyler Mixa1,2, David C Fritts2, Brian Laughman2, Ling Wang2, Thomas Lund3 and Lakshmi H Kantha4, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States, (3)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Instability Dynamics and Turbulent Mixing Efficiency from 3-D Direct Numerical Simulations of Gravity Wave Packet Breaking in A Mesopause Inversion Layer (190796)
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
Interactions between finite amplitude small and medium-scale waves in the MLT region. (134470)
Christopher James Heale and Jonathan B Snively, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Dynamical downscaling simulation of gravity waves generation by tropical cyclone (156881)
Jianfei Wu, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Xianghui Xue, University of Science and Technology of China, CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Hanli Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Xiankang Dou, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Wave effects in the total electron content of the high-latitude lower ionosphere during solar eclipses (120560)
Sergei Cherniakov, Polar Geophysical Institute, Apatity, Russia
Investigating the Characteristics of Wavelike Oscillations by Decomposing Fluctuating TEC obtained from SCINDA GPS Receiver in Ethiopian (138353)
Melessew Nigussie1, Baylie Damtie1, Endawoke Yizengaw2, Fasil Tesema1 and Ambelu Tebabal1, (1)Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (2)Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research, Boston, United States
Momentum Deposition by Acoustic Gravity Waves at Thermospheric Altitudes over Wallops Island, VA Measured by Dynasonde Techniques (131506)
Catalin Negrea, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, Nikolay A Zabotin, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, United States, Peter D Bromirski, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Physics, Monterey, CA, United States and Terence W Bullett, CIRES - NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, United States
Relationships Between Gravity Waves Observed At The Surface And In The Stratosphere Over The Continental United States (150124)
Michael A H Hedlin, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Catherine D de Groot-Hedlin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, M Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, United States, Lars Hoffmann, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich Supercomputing Center, Jülich, Germany and Claudia Stephan, University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom
Stratospheric Gravity Waves excited during a Minor Sudden Stratospheric Warming (146599)
Andreas Dörnbrack1, Natalie Kaifler2, Sonja Gisinger2, Nedjeljka Zagar3 and Damjan Jelić3, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhoffen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (3)University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Gravity Waves within upper-troposphere and stratosphere observed by the USTC Doppler wind lidar and Model analysis (143478)
Xianghui Xue, University of Science and Technology of China, CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China and Xiankang Dou, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Simultaneous observations of storm-generated sprite and gravity wave over Bangladesh (144709)
Cheng-Ling Kuo, National Central University, Department of Space Science and Engineering, Kanagawa, Japan, Chien-Chung Chou, Institute of Space Science National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan and Tai-Yin Huang, Pennsylvania State University Penn State Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA, United States
Investigating middle-atmospheric gravity waves associated with a sprite-producing mesoscale convective event (152510)
David Russell Vollmer1, Matthew G McHarg1, Jacob Harley1, Ryan K Haaland2 and Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen3, (1)US Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, United States, (2)Fort Lewis College, Physics & Engineering, Durango, CO, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Characteristics of Inertia Gravity Waves Generated by Sub-tropical Westerly Jet Stream over the Sub-Himalayan Region (147983)
Kristina V M. Currans1, Kunjukrishnapillai Rajeev2, Kiran Kumar N V P1,3, Arup Borgohain4, Shyam S Kundu4 and Nilomoni Barman5, (1)Space Physics Laboratory, Trivandrum, India, (2)Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram, India, (3)Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram, India, (4)Dr, Shillong, India, (5)Mr, Shillong, India
Identification of Gravity wave Sources over Tropical Latitudes Using Reverse Ray Tracing technique (129952)
M Pramitha, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki, India
Performance evaluation of low-cost airglow cameras for mesospheric gravity wave measurements (128247)
Shin Suzuki, Aichi University, Aichi, Japan and Kazuo Shiokawa, Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan
Long-term variation of horizontal phase velocity and propagation direction of mesospheric and thermospheric gravity waves by using airglow images obtained at Shigarkai, Japan (155075)
Daiki Takeo1, Shiokawa Kazuo2, Hatsuki Hujinami3, Yuichi Otsuka4, Takashi S Matsuda5, Mitsumu K Ejiri6, Mamoru Yamamoto7 and Takuji Nakamura5, (1)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (2)ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (4)Nagoya University, ISEE, Nagoya, Japan, (5)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (6)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Kyoto University, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto, Japan
Relationship between Ripples and Gravity Waves Observed in OH Airglow over the Andes Lidar Observatory (163174)
Bing Cao, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Lynette J Gelinas, Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alan Z Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and James H Hecht, The Aerospace Corporation, Space Science Applications Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Nontropospheric excitation of a ring-like gravity wave observed by several instruments operating at Cerro Pachon, Chile. (197304)
Fabio Vargas, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Gary R Swenson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, Alan Z Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and Pierre-Dominique Pautet, Utah State University, Logan, United States
Coordinated Ground-Based and AIM Satellite Measurements of Mesospheric and Stratospheric Waves over South America (183976)
Michael J Taylor1, Yucheng Zhao2, Pierre-Dominique Pautet3, Justin N Carstens4, Jonathan Rich Pugmire2, Steven Michael Smith5, Alan Z Liu6, Fabio Vargas7, Gary R Swenson8, Cora E Randall9, Scott Martin Bailey10 and James M Russell III11, (1)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Logan, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (6)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (8)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (11)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
Observations of the cold mid-latitude mesopause using airglow-derived temperatures and SABER data (164922)
Lynette J Gelinas1, James H Hecht2, Richard L Walterscheid1, Martin G Mlynczak3 and Iain M Reid4, (1)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)The Aerospace Corporation, Space Science Applications Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (4)The University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Mountain Waves Observed by Lidar above New Zealand and Northern Scandinavia (187001)
Bernd Kaifler1, Natalie Kaifler1, Benedikt Ehard1, Andreas Dörnbrack1, Markus Rapp2 and Pierre-Dominique Pautet3, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)Utah State University, Logan, United States
Mesospheric Temperature Measurements over Scandinavia During the Gravity Wave Life Cycle Campaign (GW-LCYCLE) (159833)
Pierre-Dominique Pautet, Utah State University, Logan, United States, Mike Taylor, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States and Bernd Kaifler, German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Turbulent Processes in the Mesopause Region Based on PMSE MAARSY Observations (173948)
Nikoloz Gudadze1,2, Jorge Luis Chau3, Gunter Stober1 and Ralph Latteck1, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)Ilia State University, Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Tbilisi, Georgia, (3)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany
Wind and airglow variability in the mesopause region (196658)
William E Ward1, Samuel Kristoffersen2, Jeffery Langille3 and Chris Vail1, (1)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (2)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, (3)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Evidence of spectrally broad Gravity Wave packet propagation and dispersion in the mesopause region observed by the Na lidar and Mesospheric Temperature Mapper above Logan, Utah (147131)
Tao Yuan1, Christopher James Heale2 and Jonathan B Snively2, (1)Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Role of gravity wave seed perturbations in Equatorial Spread-F day-to-day variability: A quantitative approach (155517)
Aswathy RP, Space Physics Laboratory, Trivandrum, India, G Manju, Space Physics Laboratory,Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,Indian Space Research Organisation, Trivandrum, India and Madhav Haridas M K, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram, 695, India
Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed During Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Equinox and Solstice Periods with Kharkiv and Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radars (168759)
Sergii Panasenko1, Kateryna Aksonova2, Larisa P Goncharenko3, Philip John Erickson3 and Igor F. Domnin1, (1)Institute for Near-Earth Space Research, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Kharkiv, Ukraine, (2)National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Kharkiv, Ukraine, (3)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, United States
Sources and Characteristics of Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed by High Frequency Radars in the North American Sector (175090)
Nathaniel A Frissell, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research - Physics, Newark, United States, Joseph BH Baker, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, J. Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Raymond A Greenwald, Virginia Tech, Sykesville, MD, United States, Andrew J Gerrard, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States, Ethan S Miller, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Mary Lou West, Montclair State University, Physics and Astronomy, Montclair, NJ, United States
An analysis on the generation of Rossby waves and gravity waves in the MLT region based on satellite and whole atmosphere model data (148045)
Ryosuke Yasui, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Kaoru Sato, The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan and Yasunobu Miyoshi, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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