Five years of atmospheric temperature data, collected with an Fe Boltzmann lidar by the University of Colorado group from 2011 to 2015 at Arrival Heights, are used to characterize the vertical wavelengths, periods, vertical phase speeds, frequency spectra, and vertical wave number spectra of stratospheric gravity waves from 30 to 50 km altitudes. Over 1000 dominant gravity wave events are identified from the data. The seasonal spectral distributions of vertical wavelengths, periods, and vertical phase speeds in summer, winter, and spring/fall are found obeying a lognormal distribution. Both the downward and upward phase progression gravity waves are observed by the lidar, and the fractions of gravity waves with downward phase progression increase from summer ~59% to winter ~70%.


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    Titel :

    Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.69°E), Antarctica: 1. Vertical wavelengths, periods, and frequency and vertical wave number spectra


    Beteiligte:
    Zhao, Jian (Autor:in) / Chu, Xinzhao (Autor:in) / Chen, Cao (Autor:in) / Lu, Xian (Autor:in) / Fong, Weichun (Autor:in) / Yu, Zhibin (Autor:in) / Michael Jones, R. (Autor:in) / Roberts, Brendan R. (Autor:in) / Dörnbrack, Andreas (Autor:in)

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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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