Using Satellite Observations to Constrain Parameterizations of Gravity Wave Effects for Global Models

By M. Alexander, C. Barnet. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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General aspects of a T213L256 middle atmosphere general circulation model (2008, methodology): “... Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere (CRISTA), Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS), and Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instruments and Global Positioning System (GPS) occultation measurements, have”
Variability and predictability of the space environment as related to lower atmosphere forcing (2016, methodology): “These observations are helping better constrain parameterization schemes used in climate models [Alexander and Barnet, 2007; Alexander et al., 2010].”
Global Ray Tracing Simulations of the SABER Gravity Wave Climatology (2009, background): “[93] In order to reach this aim a better characterization of the observed waves is required [Alexander and Barnet, 2007; Eckermann et al., 2007].”
Global estimates of gravity wave momentum flux from High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations (2008, methodology): “…UARS-MLS, and AIRS and AMSU-A have previously detected large wave temperature variance [Eckermann and Preusse, 1999; Preusse et al., 2002; Ern et al., 2004; Wu and Wate 6a, 1996b; McLandress et al., 2000; Wu, 2004; Jiang et al., 2002; Alexander and Barnet, 2007; Alexander and Teitelbaum, 2007].”
Global Gravity Wave Variances from Aura MLS: Characteristics and Interpretation (2008, methodology): “…very sensitive to the wave’s horizontal propagation direction, unlike GW data from nadir sounders, such as the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A (AMSU-A; Wu 2004) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS; Alexander and Barnet 2007), and from other limb sounders, such as LIMS, CRISTA, and SABER.”
Estimation of Gravity Wave Momentum Flux and Phase Speeds from Quasi-Lagrangian Stratospheric Balloon Flights. Part II: Results from the Vorcore Campaign in Antarctica (2008, background): “…observations of gravity wave activity above Antarctica that already stressed the importance of the peninsula in the generation of gravity waves (e.g., Tsuda et al. 2000; Wu and Jiang 2002; Ern et al. 2004; Wu 2004; Ern et al. 2006; Baumgaertner and McDonald 2007; Alexander and Barnet 2007).”
Recent developments in gravity‐wave effects in climate models and the global distribution of gravity‐wave momentum flux from observations and models (2010, background): “Alexander and Barnet (2007) showed large-amplitude”
Retrieval of stratospheric temperatures from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder radiance measurements for gravity wave studies (2009, background): “…(AIRS) [Aumann et al., 2003] on the Aqua satellite [Parkinson, 2003] provide high-resolution swaths that allow imaging of horizontal wavelengths and propagation directions for gravity wave packets in the stratosphere from radiance measurements in CO2 emission channels [Alexander and Barnet, 2007].”