Chapter 12 – Middle Atmosphere Dynamics

By J. Holton, Gregory J. Hakim. 2013

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3D mixing in hot Jupiters atmospheres. I. Application to the day/night cold trap in HD 209458b (2013, background): “…that the Eulerian-mean velocities are known to be a poor descriptor of tracer advection rates in planetary atmospheres, since mixing by large scale eddies (potentially resolved by GCMs) often dominates over transportdue to the Eulerian-mean circulation (see,e.g., Andrews et al. 1987, Chapter 9).”
A Robust Mechanism for Strengthening of the Brewer–Dobson Circulation in Response to Climate Change: Critical-Layer Control of Subtropical Wave Breaking (2011, background): “The Eliassen– Palm (EP) flux divergence (EPFD) shown in the figures has units of force per unit mass and so represents a tendency term on the right-hand side of the zonal-mean zonal-wind equation (Andrews et al. 1987).”
Horizontal water vapor transport in the lower stratosphere from subtropics to high latitudes during boreal summer (2013, methodology): “[51] A natural way to separate the effects of advective transport by the residual circulation and eddy mixing on horizontal transport into the extratropical lower stratosphere is to analyze the Transformed Eulerian Mean (TEM) tracer continuity equation [e.g., Andrews et al., 1987].”
The predictability of the extratropical stratosphere on monthly time‐scales and its impact on the skill of tropospheric forecasts (2015, background): “In the zonal mean, this onset stage appears as anomalously weak flow equatorward of 60 degrees latitude and anomalously strong flow poleward of 60 degrees latitude (McIntyre, 1982; Andrews et al., 1987; Limpasuvan et al, 2004).”
The Atmospheric Dynamics of Venus (2017, background): “Another form of instability is found if the product f q < 0 anywhere within the domain, where q may be either the absolute vorticity or (Ertel) potential vorticity (e.g. see Andrews et al. 1987).”
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) simulations of climate following volcanic eruptions (2012, background): “…VOL. 117, D17105, doi:10.1029/2012JD017607, 2012 D17105 1 of 25 has been associated with a reduction in the Eliassen Palm (EP) Flux - essentially, a measure of planetary wave activity from the troposphere into the stratosphere [Andrews et al., 1987] - and hence a stronger, less disturbed vortex.”
Equatorial and Low Latitude Ionospheric Effects During Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events (2011, unknown): “Although there is an ambiguity in definitions used by different studies (Andrews et al. 1987; Labitzke and Naujokat 2000; Limpasuvan et al. 2004; Kruger et al. 2005; Charlton and Polvani 2007), the main criterion is related to the dynamics.”
On the Intermittency of Gravity Wave Momentum Flux in the Stratosphere (2012, background): “Through these processes, the extratropical gravity waves significantly contribute to the generation of the meridional, global-scale Brewer–Dobson circulation, which is responsible for driving the middle atmosphere out of radiative equilibrium (e.g., Holton 1983; Andrews et al. 1987).”
The Dependence of Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning on Wind Stress (2011, methodology): “…this behavior diagnostically through the residual buoyancy budget, using the framework of MR03. a. Transformed Eulerian-mean buoyancy budget We begin by reviewing some essential elements of TEM theory (Andrews and McIntyre 1976; Andrews et al. 1987; Treguier et al. 1997; Plumb and Ferrari 2005).”