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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Momentum flux estimates accompanying multiscale gravity waves over Mount Cook, New Zealand, on 13 July 2014 during the DEEPWAVE campaign |
Author: | Bossert, K. Fritts, D. Pautet, P. Williams, B. Taylor, M. Kaifler, B. Dörnbrack, A. Reid, I. Murphy, D. Spargo, A. MacKinnon, A. |
Citation: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2015; 120(18):9323-9337 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
ISSN: | 2169-897X 2169-8996 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Katrina Bossert, David C. Fritts, Pierre-Dominique Pautet, Bifford P. Williams, Michael J. Taylor, Bernd Kaifler, Andreas Dörnbrack, Iain M. Reid, Damian J. Murphy, Andrew J. Spargo and Andrew D. MacKinnon |
Abstract: | Observations performed with a Rayleigh lidar and an Advanced Mesosphere Temperature Mapper aboard the National Science Foundation/National Center for Atmospheric Research Gulfstream V research aircraft on 13 July 2014 during the Deep Propagating Gravity Wave Experiment (DEEPWAVE) measurement program revealed a large-amplitude, multiscale gravity wave (GW) environment extending from ~20 to 90 km on flight tracks over Mount Cook, New Zealand. Data from four successive flight tracks are employed here to assess the characteristics and variability of the larger- and smaller-scale GWs, including their spatial scales, amplitudes, phase speeds, and momentum fluxes. On each flight, a large-scale mountain wave (MW) having a horizontal wavelength ~200–300 km was observed. Smaller-scale GWs over the island appeared to correlate within the warmer phase of this large-scale MW. This analysis reveals that momentum fluxes accompanying small-scale MWs and propagating GWs significantly exceed those of the large-scale MW and the mean values typical for these altitudes, with maxima for the various small-scale events in the range ~20–105 m₂ s−₂. |
Rights: | © 2015. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1002/2015JD023197 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015jd023197 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Physics publications |
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