Gravity Wave Processes: Their Parameterization in Global Climate Models

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Some Problems Relating to the Observed Characteristics of Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere....Pages 1-5
Gravity-Wave Parameters in the Lower Stratosphere....Pages 7-25
Measurements of Intermittency in the Upper Stratosphere and Mesosphere....Pages 27-44
Climatology and hydrodynamic sources of internal gravity waves in the middle and upper atmosphere....Pages 45-62
Observational Studies of Gravity Waves Associated with Convection....Pages 63-68
Experimental Constraints on Gravity Wave Parameterization from in Situ Measurements of Temperature and Turbulence....Pages 69-84
Analysis of Intermittency in Aircraft Measurements of Velocity, Temperature and Atmospheric Tracers using Wavelet Transforms....Pages 85-102
Observations of Gravity Waves with the UARS Microwave Limb Sounder....Pages 103-120
Maintainance of the Tropical Oscillations of Zonal-Mean Winds in the Middle Atmosphere by Convectively-Forced Gravity Waves....Pages 121-136
Numerical Modelling of Inertia-Gravity Wave Emission by Fronts and Jets....Pages 137-152
A Model of Non-Stationary Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere and Comparison to Observations....Pages 153-168
The Propagation and Breaking of Gravity Waves Excited by Forcing in the Troposphere....Pages 169-186
Estimate of Atmospheric Dissipation Derived from UARS/HRDI Measurements....Pages 187-197
On the nonlinear interactions between gravity waves in shear flows....Pages 199-215
Gravity wave spectral models and the shapes of gravity wave spectra at low vertical wavenumbers....Pages 217-226
Nonlinearity of the saturation spectrum....Pages 227-244
Sensitivity studies using the Hines and Fritts gravity wave drag parameterizations....Pages 245-255
Modeling the Seasonal Cycles and Equatorial Oscillations with a Parameterization of the Doppler Spread Gravity Wave Theory....Pages 257-274
The representation of sub-grid scale orography in GCMs....Pages 275-290
The Effect of Parameterized Gravity Wave Drag on Simulations of the Middle Atmosphere during Northern Winter 1991/1992 — General Evolution....Pages 291-307
The Parameterization of Gravity Wave Drag Based on the Nonlinear Diffusion of Wave Spectra....Pages 309-325
Effects of Gravity Wave Drag in the Berlin Troposphere-Stratosphere-Mesosphere GCM....Pages 327-336
The Role of Parameterized Drag in a Troposphere-Stratosphere-Mesosphere General Circulation Model....Pages 337-350
Seasonal Simulations with the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model: Sensitivity to a combination of orographic and Doppler Spread Parameterizations of Gravity Wave Drag....Pages 351-366
Middle Atmosphere Simulations with the ECHAM4 Model: Sensitivity to the Doppler Spread Gravity Wave Parameterization....Pages 367-381
The Mesosphere in the Extended UGAMP GCM....Pages 383-401
Back Matter....Pages 403-408