Lidar Observations of Stratospheric Gravity Waves From 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.69°E), Antarctica: 2. Potential Energy Densities, Lognormal Distributions, and Seasonal Variations

• Main Authors: Chu, Xinzhao, Zhao, Jian, Lu, Xian, Harvey, V. Lynn, Jones, R. Michael, Becker, Erich, Chen, Cao, Fong, Weichun, Yu, Zhibin, Roberts, Brendan R., Dörnbrack, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic lidar observations; lognormal distributions; polar vortex; potential energy density; stratospheric gravity waves; wave dissipation; 550; Antarctic; Midwinter; Antarc*; Antarctica; E. Antarctica
• Online Access: https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/10694; https://doi.org/10.34657/9730

Five years of Fe Boltzmann lidar's Rayleigh temperature data from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo are used to characterize gravity wave potential energy mass density (Epm), potential energy volume density (Epv), vertical wave number spectra, and static stability N² in the stratosphere 30–50 km. Epm (Ep...