On the origin of the mesospheric quasi-stationary planetary waves in the unusual Arctic winter 2015/2016

• Main Authors: Matthias, Vivien, Ern, Manfred
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: München : European Geopyhsical Union 2018
• Subjects: Jet stream; mesosphere; planetary wave; quasi-biennial oscillation; standing wave; winter; 550; Arctic; Midwinter; polar night
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.34657/1163; https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/611

The midwinter 2015/2016 was characterized by an unusually strong polar night jet (PNJ) and extraordinarily large stationary planetary wave (SPW) amplitudes in the subtropical mesosphere. The aim of this study is, therefore, to find the origin of these mesospheric SPWs in the midwinter 2015/2016 stud...