Article
Breaking of Thunderstorm-Generated Gravity Waves as a Source of Short-Period Ducted Waves at Mesopause Altitudes
Geophysical Research Letters
Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
12-19-2003
Disciplines
Abstract/Description
Numerical simulation results indicate that the breaking of atmospheric gravity waves generated by tropospheric convection can excite short-period secondary waves, which are trapped in the lower thermospheric duct and which closely resemble quasi-monochromatic structures commonly observed in airglow imaging experiments.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL018436
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
Grant or Award Name
e National Science Foundation grant ATM-01-23020
Citation Information
Snively, J. B., and V. P. Pasko,
Breaking of thunderstorm-generated gravity waves as a source of
short-period ducted waves at mesopause altitudes, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 30(24), 2254, doi:10.1029/2003GL018436, 2003
Dr. Snively was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.