Lidar observations of gravity wave activity and Arctic stratospheric vortex core warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2813-2816

  Duck, Thomas J ^a   Whiteway, James A ^b   Carswell, Allan I ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity wave; Polar vortex; Stratosphere; Vortex; Warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; WIND; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

ARCTIC STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX CORE WARMING; GRAVITY WAVE ACTIVITY; CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC; GRAVITY WAVE MOMENTUM; LIDAR OBSERVATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; RAYLEIGH LIDAR; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX; THERMAL STRUCTURE; WAVE ACTIVITY;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

GRAVITY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; VORTEX; WARMING;

EID: 0032148077     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02113     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bretherton, F. P., The propagation of groups of internal gravity waves in a shear flow, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 92, 466-480, 1966.
2. Carswell, A. I., S. R. Pal, W. Steinbrecht, J. A. Whiteway, A. Ulitsky, and T. Y. Wang, Lidar measurements of the middle atmosphere, Can. J. Phys., 69, 1076-1086, 1991.
3. Fels, S. B., Radiative-dynamical interactions in the middle atmosphere, Adv. Geophys., 28, 271-300, 1985.
4. Garcia, R. R., and B. A. Boville, "Downward control" of the mean meridional circulation and temperature distribution of the polar winter stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2238-2245, 1994.
5. Hauchecome, A., and M. L. Chanin, Density and temperature profiles obtained by lidar between 35 and 70 km, Geophys. Res. Lett., 7, 565-568, 1980.
6. Harvey, V. L., and M. H. Hitchman, A climatology of the Aleutian High, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2088-2101, 1996.
7. Haynes, P. H., C. J. Marks, M. E. McIntyre, T. G. Shepherd, and K. P. Shine, On the "downward control" of extratropical diabatic circulations by eddy-induced mean zonal forces, J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 651-678, 1991.
8. Hines, C. O., Internal atmospheric gravity waves at ionospheric heights, Can. J. Phys., 38, 1441-1481, 1960.
9. Hitchman, M. H., J. C. Gille, C. D. Rodgers, and G. Brasseur, The separated polar winter stratopause: a gravity wave driven climatological feature, J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 410-422, 1989.
10. Hodges, R. R., Generation of turbulence in the upper atmosphere by internal gravity waves, J. Geophys. Res., 72, 3455-3458, 1967.
11. Holton, J. R., The influence of gravity wave breaking on the general circulation of the middle atmosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 2497-2507, 1983.
12. Jones, W. L., and D. D. Houghton, The coupling of momentum between internal gravity waves and mean flow: A numerical study, J. Atmos. Sci., 28, 604-608, 1971.
13. Lindzen, R. S., Turbulence and stress owing to gravity wave and tidal breakdown, J. Geophys. Res., 86, 9707-9714, 1981.
14. McIntyre, M. E., and T. N. Palmer, Breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere, Nature, 305, 593-600, 1983.
15. O'Neill, A., and V. D. Pope, Simulations of linear and nonlinear disturbances in the stratosphere, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 114, 1063-1110, 1988.
16. Pal, S. R., A. I. Carswell, J. Bird, D. Donovan, T. Duck, and J. Whiteway, Lidar measurements of the stratosphere at the Eureka and Toronto NDSC stations, SPIE, 2833, 28-39, 1996.
17. Schoeberl, M. R., and D. L. Hartmann, The dynamics of the stratospheric polar vortex and its relation to springtime ozone depletions, Science, 251, 46-52, 1991.
18. Shine, K. P., The middle atmosphere in the absence of dynamical heat fluxes, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 113, 603-633, 1987.
19. Whiteway, J. A., and A. I. Carswell, Rayleigh lidar observations of thermal structure and gravity wave activity in the High Arctic during a stratospheric warming, J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3122-3136, 1994.
20. Whiteway, J. A., and A. I. Carswell, Lidar observations of gravity wave activity in the upper stratosphere over Toronto, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 14,113-14,124, 1995.
21. Whiteway, J. A., and T. J. Duck, Evidence for critical level filtering of atmospheric gravity waves, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 145-148, 1996.
22. Whiteway, J. A., T. J. Duck, D. P. Donovan, J. C. Bird, S. R. Pal, and A. I. Carswell, Measurements of gravity wave activity within and around the Arctic stratospheric vortex, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1387-1390, 1997.
23. Wu, D. L., and J. W. Waters, Gravity-wave-scale temperature fluctuations seen by the UARS MLS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3289-3292, 1996.