Dynamical control of the middle atmosphere

E Becker - Space Science Reviews, 2012 - Springer
This review recapitulates the concept of the wave-driven residual circulation in the
stratosphere and mesosphere. The residual circulation is defined as the conventional mean …

Secondary gravity waves in the winter mesosphere: Results from a high‐resolution global circulation model

E Becker, SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes a new high‐resolution general circulation model with regard to
secondary gravity waves in the mesosphere during austral winter. The model resolves …

A high‐resolution whole‐atmosphere model with resolved gravity waves and specified large‐scale dynamics in the troposphere and stratosphere

E Becker, SL Vadas, K Bossert… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new version of the HIgh Altitude Mechanistic general Circulation Model
(HIAMCM) with specified dynamics. We utilize a spectral method that nudges only the large …

Explicit global simulation of gravity waves in the thermosphere

E Becker, SL Vadas - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new version of the high‐resolution Kühlungsborn Mechanistic general
Circulation Model (KMCM) extended to z∼ 450 km. This model is called HIAMCM (HI …

Impacts of gravity waves on the thermospheric circulation and composition

HL Liu, PH Lauritzen, F Vitt - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The high‐resolution Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with
thermosphere/ionosphere extension (WACCM‐X) is used to study the impacts of gravity …

[HTML][HTML] Interhemispheric differences of mesosphere–lower thermosphere winds and tides investigated from three whole-atmosphere models and meteor radar …

G Stober, A Kuchar, D Pokhotelov, H Liu… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Long-term and continuous observations of mesospheric–lower thermospheric winds are
rare, but they are important to investigate climatological changes at these altitudes on …

Temporal variations of atomic oxygen in the upper mesosphere from SABER

AK Smith, DR Marsh, MG Mlynczak… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One of the atmospheric constituents that can be retrieved from observations by the Sounding
of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument on the …

Multi‐step vertical coupling during the January 2017 sudden stratospheric warming

E Becker, L Goncharenko, VL Harvey… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study analyzes a simulation of the Arctic winter 2016–2017 with focus on multi‐step
vertical coupling (MSVC) by primary, secondary, and higher‐order gravity waves (GWs). We …

Case studies of the mesospheric response to recent minor, major, and extended stratospheric warmings

DE Siskind, SD Eckermann… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We have studied the mesospheric response to two recent stratospheric warmings by
performing short‐term forecasts at medium (1.5°) and high (0.5°) spatial resolution under …

Seasonal variation of mesospheric waves at northern middle and high latitudes

P Hoffmann, E Becker, W Singer, M Placke - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The seasonal variation of the wave activity in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere is
investigated using wind measurements with meteor and MF radars at Juliusruh (55° N, 13° …