Global cloud-resolving models

M Satoh, B Stevens, F Judt, M Khairoutdinov… - Current Climate Change …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Global cloud-resolving models (GCRMs) are a new type of
atmospheric model which resolve nonhydrostatic accelerations globally with kilometer-scale …

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 …

Numerical modeling of the excitation, propagation, and dissipation of primary and secondary gravity waves during wintertime at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic

SL Vadas, E Becker - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the results of the gravity wave (GW)‐resolving, high‐resolution Kühlungsborn
Mechanistic general Circulation Model in July at McMurdo Station (166.69° E and 77.84° S) …

The Role of the Polar Vortex Jet for Secondary and Higher‐Order Gravity Waves in the Northern Mesosphere and Thermosphere During 11–14 January 2016

SL Vadas, E Becker, K Bossert… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the gravity waves (GWs) from the ground to the thermosphere during 11–14
January 2016 using the nudged HI Altitude Mechanistic general Circulation Model. We find …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative study between ground-based observations and NAVGEM-HA analysis data in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere region

G Stober, K Baumgarten, JP McCormack… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Recent studies have shown that day-to-day variability of the migrating semidiurnal solar
(SW2) tide within the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) is a key driver of …

Secondary gravity waves from the stratospheric polar vortex over ALOMAR observatory on 12–14 January 2016: observations and modeling

SL Vadas, E Becker, K Bossert… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the gravity waves (GWs) observed by a Rayleigh lidar at the Arctic Lidar
Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research (ALOMAR)(16.08° E, 69.38° N) in Norway at …

Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84 S, 166.69 E), Antarctica: 2. Potential energy densities, lognormal distributions …

X Chu, J Zhao, X Lu, VL Harvey… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Five years of Fe Boltzmann lidar's Rayleigh temperature data from 2011 to 2015 at
McMurdo are used to characterize gravity wave potential energy mass density (Epm) …

Formation of a mesospheric inversion layer and the subsequent elevated stratopause associated with the major stratospheric sudden warming in 2018/19

H Okui, K Sato, D Koshin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since 2004, following prolonged stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) events, it has been
observed that the stratopause disappeared and reformed at a higher altitude, forming an …

[HTML][HTML] Climatologies and long-term changes in mesospheric wind and wave measurements based on radar observations at high and mid latitudes

S Wilhelm, G Stober, P Brown - Annales Geophysicae, 2019 - angeo.copernicus.org
We report on long-term observations of atmospheric parameters in the mesosphere and
lower thermosphere (MLT) made over the last 2 decades. Within this study, we show, based …

Quantifying gravity wave forcing using scale invariance

HL Liu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Despite the increasing resolution, forcing on the mean circulation by resolved waves in
general circulation models is not yet converging. Parameterization of the forcing remains a …