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ArticleJournal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR2022

Modeling Studies of Gravity Wave Dynamics in Highly Structured Environments: Reflection, Trapping, Instability, Momentum Transport, Secondary Gravity Waves, and Induced Flow Responses.

Wenjun Dong, David C Fritts, Michael P Hickey, Alan Z Liu, Thomas S Lund, Shaodong Zhang, Yanying Yan, Fan Yang

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Article in Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Wenjun DongGlobal Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS) Boulder CO USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0773-5862
David C FrittsGlobal Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS) Boulder CO USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6402-105X
Michael P HickeyCenter for Space and Atmospheric Research (CSAR) and Department of Physical Sciences Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach FL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2761-9754
Alan Z LiuCenter for Space and Atmospheric Research (CSAR) and Department of Physical Sciences Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach FL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1834-7120
Thomas S LundGlobal Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS) Boulder CO USA.
Shaodong ZhangSchool of Electronic Information Wuhan University Wuhan China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3345-1927
Yanying YanCollege of Data Science Taiyuan University of Technology Taiyuan China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5965-3511
Fan YangCenter for Space and Atmospheric Research (CSAR) and Department of Physical Sciences Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach FL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3439-0783
Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University · USG & A Technical Software (United States) · USTaiyuan University of Technology · CNUniversity of Colorado Boulder · USWuhan University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A compressible numerical model is applied for three-dimensional (3-D) gravity wave (GW) packets undergoing momentum deposition, self-acceleration (SA), breaking, and secondary GW (SGW) generation in the presence of highly-structured environments enabling thermal and/or Doppler ducts, such as a mesospheric inversion layer (MIL), tidal wind (TW), or combination of MIL and TW. Simulations reveal that ducts can strongly modulate GW dynamics. Responses modeled here include reflection, trapping, suppressed transmission, strong local instabilities, reduced SGW generations, higher altitude SGW responses, and induced large-scale flows. Instabilities that arise in ducts experience strong dissipation after they emerge, while trapped smaller-amplitude and smaller-scale GWs can survive in ducts to much later times. Additionally, GW breaking and its associated dynamics enhance the local wind along the GW propagation direction in the ducts, and yield layering in the wind field. However, these dynamics do not yield significant heat transport in the ducts. The failure of GW breaking to induce stratified layers in the temperature field suggests that such heat transport might not be as strong as previously assumed or inferred from observations and theoretical assessments. The present numerical simulations confirm previous finding that MIL generation may not be caused by the breaking of a transient high-frequency GW packet alone.

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gravity wave instabilitiesgravity wave reflection and transmissiongravity wave‐tidal interactionsinduced flow responsesmesospheric inversion layer

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PMID36249537
PMCPMC9542130
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