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We study the dynamical and thermal roles of internal gravity waves generated in the troposphere and above using the Coupled Middle Atmosphere Thermosphere-2 General Circulation Model. This model incorporates the whole atmosphere nonlinear…

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

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

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

Atmospheric gravity (buoyancy) waves (GWs) are of great importance for the energy and momentum budget of all planetary atmospheres. Propagating upward waves carry energy and momentum from the lower atmosphere to thermospheric altitudes and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Erdal Yiğit , Alexander S. Medvedev , Paul Hartogh

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

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

This study investigates the effect of stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs) on planetary wave (PW) activity in the mesosphere-lower thermosphere (MLT). PW activity near 95 km is derived from meteor wind data using a chain of eight SuperDARN…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 N. H. Stray , Y. J. Orsolini , P. J. Espy , V. Limpasuvan , R. E. Hibbins

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

Parametrizations for internal gravity waves in atmospheric models are traditionally subject to a number of simplifications. Most notably, they rely on both neglecting wave propagation and advection in the horizontal direction (single-column…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-28 Georg S. Voelker , Gergely Bölöni , Young-Ha Kim , Günther Zängl , Ulrich Achatz

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

The equatorial mixed Rossby-gravity wave (MRGW) is an important contributor to tropical variability. Its excitation mechanism capable of explaining the observed MRGW variance peak at synoptic scales remains elusive. This study investigates…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sándor István Mahó , Sergiy Vasylkevych , Nedjeljka Žagar

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

First high-altitude observations of gravity wave (GW)-induced CO$_2$ density perturbations in the Martian thermosphere retrieved from NASA's NGIMS instrument on board the MAVEN satellite are presented and interpreted using the extended GW…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Erdal Yiğit , Scott L. England , Guiping Liu , Alexander S. Medvedev , Paul R. Mahaffy , Takeshi Kuroda , Bruce M. Jakosky

In this study, we extracted the amplitudes of the gravity waves (GWs)from the neutral densities measured in situ by the neutral gas and ion mass spectrometer aboard the Mars atmosphere and volatile evolution mission. The spatial and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 N. V. Rao , V. Leelavathi , Ch. Yaswanth , S. V. B. Rao

We investigate thermosphere responses to non-orographic gravity waves (GWs) using wind measurements from the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer onboard the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, alongside simulations from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Jiandong Liu , François Forget , Ehouarn Millour , Francisco González Galindo , Jean-Yves Chaufray

We consider a generic dispersive massive gravity theory and numerically study its resulting modified energy and strain spectra of tensor gravitational waves (GWs) sourced by (i) fully developed turbulence during the electroweak phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-12 Yutong He , Axel Brandenburg , Aditya Sinha

We propose, for the first time, a two-dimensional model for the nonlinear coupling of internal gravity and thermal waves in the presence of temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity due to thermal expansion and thermal feedback in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 S. Das Adhikary , A. P. Misra

In this second paper of the series on internal gravity waves (IGWs), we present a study of the generation and propagation of IGWs in a model solar atmosphere with diverse magnetic conditions. A magnetic field free, and three magnetic models…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth , O. Steiner , J. Jackiewicz

Global climate models typically operate at a grid resolution of hundreds of kilometers and fail to resolve atmospheric mesoscale processes, e.g., clouds, precipitation, and gravity waves (GWs). Model representation of these processes and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Aman Gupta , Aditi Sheshadri , Sujit Roy , Vishal Gaur , Manil Maskey , Rahul Ramachandran
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