15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
    

Session 5

 Internal Gravity Waves: Observations
 Organizers: Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO
Chair: Charles McLandress, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
8:00 AM5.1Quantifying gravity waves and turbulence in the stratosphere using satellite measurements of stellar scintillation   wrf recording
Viktoria Sofieva, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and A. S. Gurvich and F. Dalaudier
8:20 AM5.2Aircraft measurements and numerical simulations of gravity waves in the extratropical UTLS region during the START08 field campaign  
Fuqing Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. Zhang, K. P. Bowman, L. Pan, and E. Atlas
8:40 AM5.3South Georgia Island Wave Patterns Observed in the Stratosphere via Satellite   wrf recording
M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and S. Eckermann, D. Broutman, and J. Ma
9:00 AM5.4The High-Altitude Southern-Scandinavian Mountain Wave of 14 January 2003  
Stephen Eckermann, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. Ma, D. Broutman, D. L. Wu, M. J. Alexander, L. Coy, J. Doyle, T. F. Hogan, B. N. Lawrence, and A. Stephens
9:20 AM5.5Gravity wave responses throughout the lower and middle atmosphere to airflow over the southern Andes and the Antarctic peninsula: A natural laboratory for assessing responses to complex terrain, coupling to higher altitudes, and evaluation of OGWD parameterizations  
David C. Fritts, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Colorado Research Associates Division, Boulder, CO; and R. B. Smith, J. Doyle, and S. Eckermann
9:40 AM5.6Energy flux diagnosis of secondary mountain wave generation   wrf recording
Bryan Woods, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith and J. D. Doyle

Wednesday, 10 June 2009: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Pinnacle A

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