Microwave Limb Sounder observations of gravity waves in the stratosphere: A climatology and interpretation

By C. McLandress, M. Alexander, Dong, L. Wu. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. M. Ern
2. P. Preusse
3. M. Mlynczak
4. J. Russell
5. M. Alexander
6. M. Riese
7. Stephen D. Eckermann
8. Lars Hoffmann

In Atmospheric Science

1. M. Ern
2. P. Preusse
3. M. Alexander
4. M. Mlynczak
5. R. Garcia
6. F. Sassi
7. Stephen D. Eckermann
8. J. Russell

Citations in the corpus

• Space-based measurements of stratospheric mountain waves by CRISTA 1. Sensitivity, analysis method, and a case study (2002, methodology): “Wu and Waters [1997] and McLandress et al. [2000] provided such an analysis for saturated radiances measured by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the UARS satellite.”
• Global Ray Tracing Simulations of the SABER Gravity Wave Climatology (2009, background): “…reproduced, indicating that these are features generated primarily by convective sources rather than by the modulation of GWs by the background winds [see discussion of the SABER maps in McLandress et al., 2000; Preusse et al., 2001b; Jiang et al., 2004a; Ern et al., 2004; Preusse and Ern, 2005].”
• An overview of the past, present and future of gravity‐wave drag parametrization for numerical climate and weather prediction models (2003, background): “Clear correlations between convective activity and enhanced gravity wave energy have been observed, particularly in the tropics (e.g., Tsuda et al., 1994, 2000; Karoly et al., 1996; Alexander et al., 2000; McLandress et al., 2000; Preusse et al., 2001).”
• Global Gravity Wave Variances from Aura MLS: Characteristics and Interpretation (2008, background): “As with other GW-resolving satellite sensors (Alex-ander 1998; McLandress et al. 2000; Preusse et al. 2002; Jiang et al. 2004a; Wu 2004; Eckermann and Wu 2006), interpreting Aura MLS variances requires a comprehensive understanding of the instrument’s sensitivity to GWs of different wavelengths and…”
• Absolute values of gravity wave momentum flux derived from satellite data (2004, background): “Climatologies were also made for the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on board the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) [Wu and Waters, 1996a, 1996b, 1997; McLandress et al., 2000; Wu, 2001], the meteorological program of the Global Positioning System (GPS/MET) [Tsuda et al., 2000], and the Cryoge”
• Global estimates of gravity wave momentum flux from High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations (2008, methodology): “[24] Temperature variance maps derived from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite-Microwave Limb Sounder (UARS-MLS) [Wu and Waters, 1996a; McLandress et al., 2000] included only long vertical wavelength waves >12 km [Alexander, 1998], and these maps show the large increase at high latitudes in the”
• Using Satellite Observations to Constrain Parameterizations of Gravity Wave Effects for Global Models (2006, background): “A region near the Patagonian Andes of South America and northernmost Antarctic Peninsula during late winter/early spring is a known location where frequent large-amplitude gravity waves with long vertical wavelengths occur in the stratosphere (Bacmeister et al. 1990; Eckermann and Preusse 1999; McLa”
• A global view of stratospheric gravity wave hotspots located with Atmospheric Infrared Sounder observations (2012, background): “This hotspot is one of the largest and strongest globally and was readily identified from early satellite-based studies on small-scale temperature fluctuations in the stratosphere [Eckermann and Preusse, 1999; McLandress et al., 2000; Jiang et al., 2002].”
• Gravity wave dynamics and effects in the middle atmosphere (2003, methodology): “Observations of high-frequency waves in the stratosphere have shown a close correspondence with deep convective clouds (see Figure 4) [Sato, 1992, 1993; Alexander and Pfister, 1995; Sato et al., 1995; Dewan et al., 1998; McLandress et al., 2000; Alexander et al., 2000].”
• Implementation of a gravity wave source spectrum parameterization dependent on the properties of convection in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) (2005, background): “Several observational studies have correlated tropical gravity wave activity in the stratosphere to the strength of underlying convection [e.g., McLandress et al., 2000; Alexander and Vincent, 2000], and in this region it is reasonable to assume that convection is the dominant gravity wave generat”