Estimated errors in a global gravity wave climatology from GPS radio occultation temperature profiles

Details Estimated errors in a global gravity wave climatology from GPS radio occultation temperature profiles Estimated errors in a global gravity wave climatology from GPS radio occultation temperature profiles

Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010adspr..46..174d&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 46, Issue 2, p. 174-179.

Computer Science

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In a previous paper by Schmidt et al. (2008), from CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) Global Positioning System (GPS) radio occultation data, a comparison was made between a Gaussian filter applied to the “complete” temperature profile and to its “separate” tropospheric and stratospheric height intervals, for gravity wave analyses. It was found that the separate filtering method considerably reduces a wave activity artificial enhancement near the tropopause, presumably due to the isolation process of the wave component. We now propose a simple approach to estimate the uncertainty in the calculation of the mean specific wave potential energy content, due exclusively to the filtering process of vertical temperature profiles, independently of the experimental origin of the data. The approach is developed through a statistical simulation, built up from the superposition of synthetic wave perturbations. These are adjusted by a recent gravity wave (GW) climatology and temperature profiles from reanalyses. A systematic overestimation of the mean specific wave potential energy content is detected and its variability with latitude, altitude, season and averaging height interval is highlighted.

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