Simulation of secular trends in the middle atmosphere, 1950–2003

By R. Garcia, D. Marsh, Douglas E. Kinnison, Byron A. Boville, F. Sassi. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of meteoric dust in the mesosphere and upper stratosphere (2008, methodology): “This version has been used to model secular trends and the influence of the solar cycle in the middle and upper atmosphere [Garcia et al., 2007; Marsh et al., 2007].”
Recent developments in gravity‐wave effects in climate models and the global distribution of gravity‐wave momentum flux from observations and models (2010, methodology): “The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM: Garcia et al., 2007) uses a variant of the McFarlane (1987) scheme, and calls the efficiency factor e.”
Modification of the Gravity Wave Parameterization in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model: Motivation and Results (2017, background): “…of this region, including the formation of polar mesospheric clouds (Hervig et al. 2009), the meridional gradients of trace species like water vapor (Garcia et al. 2007), CO and CO 2 (Garcia et al. 2014), seasonal changes in metal layers (Marsh et al. 2013b), and the descent, during winter, of…”
Age of stratospheric air unchanged within uncertainties over the past 30 years (2009, background): “Another model predicts significantly smaller decreases in mean ag”
Tropospheric Precursors of Anomalous Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortices (2009, methodology): “The physics and chemistry in the middle atmosphere are identical to version 3.0 described in Garcia et al. (2007).”
Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere (2011, background): “Garcia et al. [2007] a The models are listed alphabetically by name.”
Case studies of the mesospheric response to recent minor, major, and extended stratospheric warmings (2010, methodology): “[1986] scheme to parameterize unresolved orographic GWD, and the multiwave Lindzen‐based scheme of Garcia et al. [2007] to parameterize unresolved nonoro-”
Thermosphere extension of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (2010, background): “X is the same as that in WACCM3, which is based on the linear saturation theory [Lindzen, 1981; Garcia et al., 2007].”
An update of observed stratospheric temperature trends (2009, neutral): “Analysis of simulated temperature trends is now a standard diagnostic for evaluating stratospheric climate model performance [e.g., Eyring et al. , 2006; Garcia et al. , 2007].”
Chemical and dynamical discontinuity at the extratropical tropopause based on START08 and WACCM analyses (2011, background): “[11] The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, Version 4 (WACCM4) is a fully interactive chemistry climate model, where the radiatively active gases affect heating and cooling rates and therefore dynamics [Garcia et al., 2007].”
Does the Holton–Tan Mechanism Explain How the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Modulates the Arctic Polar Vortex? (2012, methodology): “a. WACCM simulations WACCM version 3.1.9 (Marsh et al. 2007; Garcia et al. 2007; Richter et al. 2008) is run with fixed SSTs, land surface and ice, and perpetual 15 January or 5 February radiative forcing.”
Assessment of the quality of the Version 1.07 temperature‐versus‐pressure profiles of the middle atmosphere from TIMED/SABER (2008, methodology): “07 Tk has been obtained for both day and night using monthly and diurnally averaged CO2 profiles from the distributions with latitude in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) [Garcia et al., 2007] (see also section 3).”