Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003adspr..32..813s&link_type=abstract
Advances in Space Research, Volume 32, Issue 5, p. 813-818.
Computer Science
5
Scientific paper
A co-ordmated experimental campaign was conducted for 40 consecutive days from 21 February to 01 April 2000 using RH-200 rockets, balloons, Rayleigh lidar and MST radar, with the objective of delineating the equatorial waves and estimating momentum fluxes associated with them. Winds and temperatures in the troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere over two low latitude stations Gadanki (13.5°N, 79.2°E) and SHAR (13.7°N, 80.2°E) were measured and were used for the study of equatorial waves and their interactions with the background mean flow in various atmospheric regions. The study shows the occurrence of a strong stratospheric cooling (~25 K) anomaly along with a zonal wind anomaly and this low-latitude event appears to be linked to high-latitude stratospheric warming event and followed by subsequent generation of short period (~5 days) oscillations lasting for a few cycles in the stratosphere. Slow and fast Kelvin waves and RG wave (~-17-day and ~7.2-day and ~4.2-day periods respectively) have been identified. The mean flow acceleration produced by the divergence of the momentum flux due to the observed Kelvin waves in the 35-60 km height region were compared with the zonal flow accelerations computed from the observed zonal winds. Contribution by the slow and fast Kelvin waves was found to be only ~25 % of the observed acceleration during the evolution of the westerly phase of the semi-annual oscillation.
Bhavanikumar Y.
Devanarayanan S.
Jain A. R.
Krishna Moorthy K.
Krishna Murthy B. V.
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