Gravity wave variations during the 2009 stratospheric sudden warming as revealed by ECMWF-T799 and observations

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Nov 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3722806y&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 22, CiteID L22806

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Atmospheric Processes: Acoustic-Gravity Waves, Atmospheric Processes: Middle Atmosphere Dynamics (0341, 0342), Atmospheric Processes: Tides And Planetary Waves, Atmospheric Processes: Polar Meteorology, Atmospheric Processes: Data Assimilation

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ECMWF-T799 is used to study gravity wave (GW) variations during the 2009 stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) in the Arctic. The magnitude and occurrence of GWs correlate with the location and strength of the polar vortex that is strongly disturbed by planetary wave (PW) growth. This location dependence on PW phase explains the observed GW variability during SSWs. During the development and the onset of SSW, the zonal-mean GW potential energy density (GW-Ep) increases on January 5 and 15-22 in association with the growth of PW wavenumber 1 and wavenumber 2, respectively. As the initial prominent PW magnitude in the lower mesosphere progresses downward, GW-Ep enhancement also seems to show a corresponding descent from January 5-22. GW-Ep peaks before the wind reversal occurrence and significantly weakens after the SSW. These variations are confirmed by COSMIC/GPS observations. Lidar data from Antarctica are also used to validate GWs as derived in ECMWF.

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