Session 6 Internal Gravity Waves: Generation and Parameterization

Wednesday, 10 June 2009: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Pinnacle A (Stoweflake Resort and Confernce Center)
Host: 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Organizers:
Judith Perlwitz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA-ESRL, Cires, Boulder, CO and M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO
Chair:
Stephen D. Eckermann, NRL, Space Science Division, Washington, DC

Papers:
10:20 AM
6.1
Weakly nonlinear internal waves in the middle atmosphere
Hayley V. Dosser, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. R. Sutherland

10:40 AM
6.2
Gravity Waves Produced by Potential Vorticity Anomalies
Francois Lott, CNRS, Paris, France; and R. Plougonven and J. Vanneste
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
6.3
The impact of conservation of momentum in gravity wave drag parameterization on planetary wave structure and variability
Tiffany A. Shaw, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
Recorded Presentation

11:20 AM
6.4
Gravity wave generation and propagation in the middle atmosphere revealed by a high-resolution GCM
Kaoru Sato, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Watanabe, Y. Kawatani, Y. Tomikawa, K. Miyazaki, S. Tateno, and M. Takahashi
Recorded Presentation

11:40 AM
6.5
The roles of 3-dimensional propagating gravity waves and equatorial trapped gravity waves on driving the Quasi Biennial Oscillation: A study of high resolution atmospheric general circulation model
Yoshio Kawatani, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan; and K. Sato, T. J. Dunkerton, S. Watanabe, S. Miyahara, and M. Takahashi
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
6.6
Towards a physically based gravity wave source parameterization in a general circulation model
Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Sassi and R. R. Garcia
Recorded Presentation

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