Gravity Wave Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Some Problems Relating to the Observed Characteristics of Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere

   • Isamu Hirota

   Pages 1-5

3. Gravity-Wave Parameters in the Lower Stratosphere

   • R. A. Vincent, S. J. Allen, S. D. Eckermann

   Pages 7-25

4. Measurements of Intermittency in the Upper Stratosphere and Mesosphere

   • R. J. Sica, M. D. Thorsley

   Pages 27-44

5. Climatology and hydrodynamic sources of internal gravity waves in the middle and upper atmosphere

   • Nikolai M. Gavrilov

   Pages 45-62

6. Observational Studies of Gravity Waves Associated with Convection

   • Kaoru Sato

   Pages 63-68

7. Experimental Constraints on Gravity Wave Parameterization from in Situ Measurements of Temperature and Turbulence

   • Franz-Josef Lübken

   Pages 69-84

8. Analysis of Intermittency in Aircraft Measurements of Velocity, Temperature and Atmospheric Tracers using Wavelet Transforms

   • Julio T. Bacmeister, Stephen D. Eckermann, Lynn Sparling, K. Roland Chan, Max Loewenstein, Michael H. Proffitt

   Pages 85-102

9. Observations of Gravity Waves with the UARS Microwave Limb Sounder

   • Dong L. Wu, Joe W. Waters

   Pages 103-120

10. Maintainance of the Tropical Oscillations of Zonal-Mean Winds in the Middle Atmosphere by Convectively-Forced Gravity Waves

    • Fabrizio Sassi, Rolando R. Garcia

    Pages 121-136

11. Numerical Modelling of Inertia-Gravity Wave Emission by Fronts and Jets

    • Michael J. Reeder, Morwenna Griffiths

    Pages 137-152

12. A Model of Non-Stationary Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere and Comparison to Observations

    • M. Joan Alexander

    Pages 153-168

13. The Propagation and Breaking of Gravity Waves Excited by Forcing in the Troposphere

    • Rolando R. Garcia, Joseph M. Prusa

    Pages 169-186

14. Estimate of Atmospheric Dissipation Derived from UARS/HRDI Measurements

    • Valery A. Yudin, Marvin A. Geller, Boris V. Khattatov

    Pages 187-197

15. On the nonlinear interactions between gravity waves in shear flows

    • J. Vanneste, F. Vial

    Pages 199-215

16. Gravity wave spectral models and the shapes of gravity wave spectra at low vertical wavenumbers

    • Christopher D Warner, Michael E Mclntyre

    Pages 217-226

17. Nonlinearity of the saturation spectrum

    • Colin O. Hines

    Pages 227-244

18. Sensitivity studies using the Hines and Fritts gravity wave drag parameterizations

    • Charles McLandress

    Pages 245-255

19. Modeling the Seasonal Cycles and Equatorial Oscillations with a Parameterization of the Doppler Spread Gravity Wave Theory

    • Hans G. Mayr, J. G. Mengel, C. O. Hines, K. L. Chan, N. F. Arnold

    Pages 257-274

20. The representation of sub-grid scale orography in GCMs

    • François Lott, Martin Miller

    Pages 275-290

The subject of this volume is the observation and modelling of the gravity wave field in the atmosphere. The focus is on the question of how to include the effects of small-scale gravity waves in sophisticated global climate models.
The book comprises 26 chapters, including contributions from distinguished experts in observation and theory, along with results from studies of gravity wave parameterization within comprehensive climate models.

• Atmosphäre
• Gravitationswellen
• Klima
• Meteorologie
• Meteorology
• Scale
• Troposphere
• Zirkulation
• atmosphere
• climate
• climatology
• metorology
• modelling
• stratosphere
• temperature

• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

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