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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045437
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- NCAR Newkirk
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [ANT-0839091, ATM-0645584]
- NSF CEDAR [ATM-0535466, ATM-0836386]
- NASA [NNX09AJ83G]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [0836386] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [0839091] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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. Citation: Yamashita, C., H.-L. Liu, and X. Chu (2010), Gravity wave variations during the 2009 stratospheric sudden warming as revealed by ECMWF-T799 and observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L22806, doi:10.1029/2010GL045437.
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