Gravity waves in the tropical lower stratosphere: An observational study of seasonal and interannual variability

By R. Vincent, M. Alexander. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. M. Ern
2. M. Alexander
3. Stephen D. Eckermann
4. P. Preusse
5. S. Vadas
6. Dave Fritts
7. Lars Hoffmann
8. Kaoru Sato

In Atmospheric Science

1. Stephen D. Eckermann
2. M. Ern
3. S. Vadas
4. M. Alexander
5. Dave Fritts
6. P. Preusse
7. Lars Hoffmann
8. Kaoru Sato

In Oceanography

1. S. Vadas
2. Dave Fritts
3. Stephen D. Eckermann
4. Dong L. Wu
5. Lars Hoffmann
6. Kaoru Sato
7. H. Chun
8. S. Article

Citations in the corpus

• A global view of stratospheric gravity wave hotspots located with Atmospheric Infrared Sounder observations (2012, background): “The most prominent sources of gravity waves are orographic generation [Smith, 1985; Durran and Klemp, 1987; Nastrom and Fritts, 1992; Dörnbrack et al., 1999] and convection [Pfister et al., 1986; Tsuda et al., 1994; Alexander and Pfister, 1995; Vincent and Alexander, 2000].”
• Thermospheric responses to gravity waves arising from mesoscale convective complexes (2004, background): “The modeling study by Alexander and Vincent (2000) concluded that the seasonal and interannual variability of gravity waves observed at Cocos Island and described by Vincent and Alexander (2000) was likely due to deep convection.”
• Gravity wave dynamics and effects in the middle atmosphere (2003, background): “, 2000], and longer-term averages peak at 1–5 10 3 Pa [Sato and Dunkerton, 1997; Sato et al., 1997; Vincent and Alexander, 2000].”
• Absolute values of gravity wave momentum flux derived from satellite data (2004, background): “Filtering the model results for vertical wavelengths visible for CRISTA lowers the model MF values roughly by a factor of 2. This indicates that there is a fair amount of GW MF at short vertical wavelengths, which has also been found by Vincent and Alexander [2000] and Alexander and Vincent [2000]”
• An overview of the past, present and future of gravity‐wave drag parametrization for numerical climate and weather prediction models (2003, methodology): “Wave momentum fluxes and GWD have been estimated from observations of waves near convection in various ways (e.g., Sato, 1993; Vincent and Alexander, 2000; Alexander et al., 2000).”
• The quasi‐biennial oscillation (2001, result): “These results represented only 1 year of observations; however, subsequent analysis of data from Cocos Island, also at ;128S, spanning 6 years showed a similar correlation with the monsoon season, but it is modulated by QBO winds [Vincent and Alexander, 2000].”
• Global Gravity Wave Variances from Aura MLS: Characteristics and Interpretation (2008, background): “This is potentially attractive for resolving the low-frequency GWs with long horizontal but short vertical wavelengths that dominate equatorial variances (Sato and Dunkerton 1997; Vincent and Alexander 2000; Al-exander et al. 2002; Ern et al. 2004; Wang et al. 2005).”
• Impact of a Spectral Gravity Wave Parameterization on the Stratosphere in the Met Office Unified Model (2002, background): “…1997) and recent evidence from analysis of observational data (e.g., Bergman and Salby 1994; Sato and Dunkerton 1997; Ricciardulli and Garcia 2000; Vincent and Alexander 2000), it now seems likely that small-scale gravity waves provide a significant component of the forcing that drives the QBO…”