On temperature inversions and the mesospheric surf zone

By F. Sassi, R. Garcia, Byron A. Boville, Huixin Liu. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Exploring the geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulfate aerosols: The role of particle size (2008, background): “The model has 52 layers from the surface to 80 km, with a horizontal resolution of 1.9 degrees latitude by 2.5 degrees longitude, producing a reasonable climate for the troposphere and middle atmosphere [Sassi et al., 2002].”
Effect of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the dynamical, thermal, and chemical structure of the middle atmosphere (2004, background): “hemisphere are realistic features of the zonal mean circulation in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere [e.g., McLandress et al., 1996]; in the model, they are due solely to the momentum source from parameterized gravity waves (Figure 1b) [cf. Sassi et al., 2002 ].”
Unexpected connections between the stratosphere and ionosphere (2010, background): “quasi‐stationary planetary waves is confined below the critical layer near mesopause where the zonal wind reverses [Sassi et al., 2002].”
Impact of sudden stratospheric warmings on equatorial ionization anomaly (2010, background): “In addition, propagation of planetary waves in a vertical direction is alsolimited bythe zonal wind reversal around the mesopause [e.g., Sassi et al., 2002 ].”
Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of meteoric dust in the mesosphere and upper stratosphere (2008, methodology): “tuning of the gravity wave algorithm [Garcia et al., 2007; Sassi et al., 2002] is a compromise between generating a good climatology in the stratosphere and in the mesosphere.”
Zonal Jet Structure and the Leading Mode of Variability (2007, unknown): “[The zonal-mean zonal wind tendency in Sassi et al. (2002) is calculated from a spectrum of nonstationary gravity waves.]”
Increased Occurrence of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings during El Niño as Simulated by WACCM (2006, methodology): “The model used in this study is the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM), a version of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model that is extended to include the middle and upper atmosphere up to about 110 km altitude (Sassi et al. 2002). The horizontal r”
Equatorial and Low Latitude Ionospheric Effects During Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events (2011, background): “The former is difficult to conceive since quasi-stationary PWs are mostly limited to high and middle latitudes (e.g., Pogoreltsev et al. 2007) and their vertical propagation is confined below the critical layer near the mesopause where the zonal wind reverses (e.g., Sassi et al. 2002).”
Simulation of secular trends in the middle atmosphere, 1950–2003 (2007, methodology): “2.2. Gravity Wave Parameterization [10] WACCM3 incorporates a parameterization for a spectrum of vertically propagating internal gravity waves based on the work ofLindzen [1981], Holton [1982], Garcia and Solomon [1985], and Sassi et al. [2002] .”
Implementation of a gravity wave source spectrum parameterization dependent on the properties of convection in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) (2005, methodology): “In addition to CAM’s parameterizations, WACCM2 includes the parameterizations of radiative heating, molecular diffusion, and ion drag as described by Sassi et al. [2002] .”
Mesosphere inversion layers and stratosphere temperature enhancements (2004, methodology): “[58] Recent work by Sassi et al. [2002] has demonstrated that the simulation of the breaking of planetary waves in the mesosphere region would produce a MIL event with an amplitude of 10–50 K depending upon the strength of the planetary wave (Figure 7).”