SOUTHTRAC-GW: An Airborne Field Campaign to Explore Gravity Wave Dynamics at the World’s Strongest Hotspot

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Rapp, Markus, Kaifler, Bernd, Dörnbrack, Andreas, Gisinger, Sonja, Mixa, Tyler, Reichert, Robert, Kaifler, Natalie, Knobloch, Stefanie, Eckert, Ramona, Wildmann, Norman, Giez, Andreas, Krasauskas, Lukas, Preusse, Peter, Geldenhuys, Markus, Riese, Martin, Woiwode, Wolfgang, Friedl Vallon, Felix, Sinnhuber, Björn Martin, de la Torre, Alejandro, Alexander, Peter, Hormaechea, José Luis, Janches, Diego, Garhammer, Markus, Chau, Jorge L., Conte, J. Federico, Hoor, Peter, Engel, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society
• Subjects: AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVES; MOUNTAIN WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Drake Passage; Argentina; Andreas; Gisinger; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/165445

The southern part of South America and the Antarctic peninsula are known as the world's strongest hotspot region of stratospheric gravity wave (GW) activity. Large tropospheric winds are deflected by the Andes and the Antarctic Peninsula and excite GWs that might propagate into the upper mesosp...