Session 6 |
| | Gravity Wave Observations, Modeling and Parameterization |
| | Organizer: Stephen Eckermann, NRL, Washington, DC
Chair: Jadwiga Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Gravity wave instabilities at large and small amplitudes: competition between wave-wave interactions and wave breaking (Invited Speaker)
David C. Fritts, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Colorado Research Associates Division, Boulder, CO |
| 8:55 AM | 6.2 | Modal and nonmodal perturbations of monochromatic high-frequency gravity waves: Primary nonlinear dynamics 
Ulrich Achatz, Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Kuehlungsborn, Germany |
| 9:10 AM | 6.3 | High resolution satellite observations of mountain waves
M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and H. Teitelbaum, S. D. Eckermann, J. Gille, and J. Barnett |
| 9:25 AM | 6.4 | Comparison of satellite gravity wave measurements with a global ray tracing experiment
Peter Preusse, Juelich Research Center, 52425 Juelich, Germany; and M. Ern, S. Eckermann, R. H. Picard, J. M. Russell, and M. G. Mlynczak |
| 9:40 AM | 6.5 | Global Gravity Wave Variances from Aura MLS: Characteristics and Interpretation
Dong L. Wu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. D. Eckermann |
| 9:55 AM | 6.6 | Three-dimensional characteristics of stratospheric mountain waves during T-REX
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. A. Cooper, V. Grubisic, J. B. Jensen, Q. Jiang, and R. B. Smith |
| 10:10 AM | | Break
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| 10:35 AM | 6.7 | The importance of small-scale gravity waves in the middle atmosphere: a modeller's perspective (Invited Speaker)
Charles McLandress, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 11:00 AM | 6.8 | A sensitivity study of the middle atmosphere to changes in the parameterized momentum drag of gravity waves
Fabrizio Sassi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Richter and R. Garcia |
| 11:15 AM | 6.9 | Gravity waves captured in high-resolution global atmospheric analyses, forecasts and climate simulations using the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS-5) AGCM/DAS
Julio T. Bacmeister, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and I. S. Song, M. J. Suarez, L. L. Takacs, C. M. Tassone, and P. Pegion |
| 11:30 AM | 6.10 | Gravity-wave parameterization and the breakdown of Newton's Third Law
John F. Scinocca, CCCma, Victoria, BC, Canada; and O. Buhler and A. E. Hasha |
| 11:45 AM | 6.11 | A Mechanistic Model Study of Gravity Waves Forced by Latent Heating
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. J. Alexander and A. Grimsdell |