Gravity Wave Propagation and Momentum Transport in Variable Environments

• Main Author: Bossert, Katrina
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2015
• Subjects: Aeronomy; Aerospace Engineering; Aerospace Environment; Gravity Waves; Optics; Remote Sensing; Atmospheric Sciences; Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization; Norway; New Zealand; Alomar; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/asen_gradetds/119; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=asen_gradetds

Gravity waves (GWs) play an important role in the dynamical processes of Earth’s atmosphere. Momentum transport and deposition accompanying GW propagation and dissipation cause body forces that alter large-scale winds, and induce residual circulations from the troposphere into the mesosphere and low...