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Simulations with the Max Planck Institute Martian general circulation model for Martian years 28 and 34 reveal details of the water "pump" mechanism and the role of gravity wave (GW) forcing. Water is advected to the upper atmosphere mainly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-14 Dmitry S. Shaposhnikov , Alexander S. Medvedev , Alexander V. Rodin , Erdal Yiğit , Paul Hartogh

Effects of subgrid-scale gravity waves (GWs) on the diurnal migrating tides are investigated from the mesosphere to the upper thermosphere for September equinox conditions, using a general circulation model coupled with the extended…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Erdal Yiğit , Alexander S. Medvedev

The impact of gravity waves (GW) on diurnal tides and the global circulation in the middle/upper atmosphere of Mars is investigated using a General Circulation Model (GCM). We have implemented a stochastic parameterization of non-orographic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-04 G. Gilli , F. Forget , A. Spiga , T. Navarro , E. Millour , L. Montabone , A. Kleinböhl , D. M. Kass , D. J. McCleese , J. T. Schofield

Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) are generated in the lower atmosphere by various weather phenomena. They propagate upward, carry energy and momentum to higher altitudes, and appreciably influence the general circulation upon depositing them…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Erdal Yiğit , Alexander S. Medvedev , Manfred Ern

Global characteristics of the small-scale gravity wave (GW) field in the Martian atmosphere obtained from a high-resolution general circulation model (GCM) are presented for the first time. The simulated GW-induced temperature variances are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Takeshi Kuroda , Alexander S. Medvedev , Erdal Yiğit , Paul Hartogh

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are buoyancy-driven waves excited by turbulent convection and contribute to the dynamics and energy transport of the lower solar atmosphere. We present high-resolution, multi-wavelength observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Oana Vesa , Julio Morales , Jason Jackiewicz , Gangadharan Vigeesh , Kevin Reardon

Conventional gravity-wave (GW) parameterizations neglect three aspects of GW dynamics. Instead of momentum and entropy fluxes they use Eliassen-Palm fluxes, thereby neglecting the possibility that resolved flow are not in geostrophic and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Tobias Kühner , Georg Sebastian Voelker , Ulrich Achatz

Gravity waves (GWs) are a fundamental driver of circulation, tracer transport, and mixing in the middle and upper atmosphere, but their treatment in global circulation models remains incomplete. In particular, standard parameterizations…

The surface gravity wave evolution, imitating tsunamis triggered by the ocean floor's arbitrary temporal motion over a generic seafloor topography, is investigated using the linearised water wave theory of a compressible ocean. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Santu Das , Michael H. Meylan

One the major factors determining the development and evolution of atmospheric convection is the sea surface temperature and its variability. Results of this thesis show that state of atmospheric convection impacts the diurnal distribution…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-03-04 Dariusz B. Baranowski

The NEMO general circulation ocean model is extended to incorporate three physical processes related to ocean surface waves, namely the surface stress (modified by growth and dissipation of the oceanic wave field), the turbulent kinetic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Øyvind Breivik , Kristian Mogensen , Jean-Raymond Bidlot , Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda , Peter A. E. M. Janssen

The dynamic and thermal regimes of climate are regulated by an exchange of energy and momentum between the atmosphere and the ocean. The role exerted by surface waves on this interchange is particularly enigmatic. Waves induce turbulence in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Alberto Alberello , Federico Frascoli , Miguel Onorato , Alessandro Toffoli

We present the results of studies of acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs) in the upper atmosphere of the Earth. The work has been mainly aimed at studying the peculiarities of atmospheric AGWs in the atmosphere based on the theoretical models…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 O. K. Cheremnykh , A. K. Fedorenko , E. I. Kryuchkov , Yu. O. Klymenko , I. T. Zhuk

Carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) ice clouds have been routinely observed in the middle atmosphere of Mars. However, there are still uncertainties concerning physical mechanisms that control their altitude, geographical, and seasonal distributions.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Erdal Yiğit , Alexander S. Medvedev , Paul Hartogh

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are low-frequency, buoyancy-driven waves that are generated by turbulent convection and propagate obliquely throughout the solar atmosphere. Their proposed energy contribution to the lower solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Oana Vesa , Jason Jackiewicz , Kevin Reardon

Studies of vertical and interhemispheric coupling during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (SSWs) suggest that gravity wave (GW) momentum flux divergence plays a key role in forcing the middle atmosphere, although observational validation of GW…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 R. J. deWit , R. E. Hibbins , P. J. Espy , Y. J. Orsolini , V. Limpasuvan , D. E. Kinnison

Ocean dynamics are often sidelined in exoplanet climate studies due to the high computational cost of fully coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (GCMs). However, ocean heat transport (OHT) can play a critical role in shaping…

We study the effects of gravity waves, or g-modes, on hot extrasolar planets. These planets are expected to possess stably-stratified atmospheres, which support gravity waves. In this paper, we review the derivation of the equation that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chris Watkins , James Y-K. Cho

Recent studies have shown that ocean dynamics can have a significant warming effect on the permanent night sides of 1 to 1 tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets with Earth-like atmospheres and oceans in the middle of the habitable zone.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Jun Yang , Dorian S. Abbot , Daniel D. B. Koll , Yongyun Hu , Adam P. Showman

By measuring the regular oscillations of the density of CO$_{2}$ in the upper atmosphere (between 120 and 190~km), the mass spectrometer MAVEN/NGIMS (Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN/Neutral Gas Ion Mass Spectrometer) reveals the local…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 M. Vals , A. Spiga , F. Forget , E. Millour , L. Montabone , F. Lott
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