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@ARTICLE{Song:838128,
author = {Song, Rui and Kaufmann, Martin and Ungermann, Jörn and
Ern, Manfred and Liu, Guang and Riese, Martin},
title = {{T}omographic reconstruction of atmospheric gravity wave
parameters from airglow observations},
journal = {Atmospheric measurement techniques discussions},
volume = {118},
issn = {1867-8610},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Copernicus},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-06832},
pages = {1 - 18},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Gravity waves (GWs) play an important role in atmospheric
dynamics. Especially in the mesosphere and lower
thermosphere (MLT) dissipating GWs provide a major
contribution to the driving of the global wind system.
Therefore global observations of GWs in the MLT region are
of particular interest. The small scales of GWs, however,
pose a major problem for the observation of GWs from space.
We propose a new observation strategy for GWs in the
mesopause region by combining limb and sub-limb
satellite-borne remote sensing measurements for improving
the spatial resolution of temperatures that are retrieved
from atmospheric soundings. In our study, we simulate
satellite observations of the rotational structure of the O2
A-band nightglow. A key element of the new method is the
ability of the instrument or the satellite to operate in so
called "target mode", i.e. to stare at a particular point in
the atmosphere and collect radiances at different viewing
angles. These multi-angle measurements of a selected region
allow for tomographic reconstruction of a 2-dimensional
atmospheric state, in particular of gravity wave structures.
As no real data is available, the feasibility of this
tomographic retrieval is carried out with simulation data in
this work. It shows that one major advantage of this
observation strategy is that much smaller scale GWs can be
observed. We derive a GW sensitivity function, and it is
shown that "target mode" observations are able to capture
GWs with horizontal wavelengths as short as ~ 50 km for
a large range of vertical wavelengths. This is far better
than the horizontal wavelength limit of 100–200 km
obtained for conventional limb sounding},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {244 - Composition and dynamics of the upper troposphere and
middle atmosphere (POF3-244) / HITEC - Helmholtz
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Energy and Climate
Research (HITEC) (HITEC-20170406)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244 / G:(DE-Juel1)HITEC-20170406},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.5194/amt-2017-118},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/838128},
}