Regional variations of mesospheric gravity-wave momentum flux over Antarctica

• Main Authors: Espy, P. J., Hibbins, R. E., Swenson, G. R., Tang, J., Taylor, M. J., Riggin, D. M., Fritts, D. C.
• Other Authors: British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Urbana (University of Illinois), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana (UIUC), University of Illinois System-University of Illinois System, Department of Physics Logan, Utah State University (USU), Colorado Research Associates Boulder (CoRA), NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Rothera; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00317914; https://hal.science/hal-00317914/document; https://hal.science/hal-00317914/file/angeo-24-81-2006.pdf

International audience Images of mesospheric airglow and radar-wind measurements have been combined to estimate the difference in the vertical flux of horizontal momentum carried by high-frequency gravity waves over two dissimilar Antarctic stations. Rothera (67° S, 68° W) is situated in the mountai...