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@ARTICLE{Ern:842057,
author = {Ern, Manfred and Trinh, Quang Thai and Preusse, Peter and
Gille, John C. and Mlynczak, Martin G. and Russell III,
James M. and Riese, Martin},
title = {{GRACILE}: {A} comprehensive climatology of atmospheric
gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings},
journal = {Earth system science data discussions},
volume = {109},
issn = {1866-3591},
address = {Bremerhaven},
publisher = {Copernics Publication},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-00338},
pages = {1 - 57},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Gravity waves are one of the main drivers of atmospheric
dynamics. The spatial resolution of most global atmospheric
models, however, is too coarse to properly resolve the small
scales of gravity waves, which range from tens to a few
thousand kilometers horizontally, and from below 1 km to
tens of kilometers vertically. Gravity wave source processes
involve even smaller scales. Therefore, general circulation
models (GCMs) and chemistry climate models (CCMs) usually
parametrize the effect of gravity waves on the global
circulation. These parametrizations are very simplified. For
this reason, comparisons with global observations of gravity
waves are needed for an improvement of parametrizations and
an alleviation of model biases.We present a gravity wave
climatology based on atmospheric infrared limb emissions
observed by satellite (GRACILE). GRACILE is a global data
set of gravity wave distributions observed in the
stratosphere and the mesosphere by the infrared limb
sounding satellite instruments High Resolution Dynamics Limb
Sounder (HIRDLS) and Sounding of the Atmosphere using
Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER). Typical distributions
(zonal averages and global maps) of gravity wave vertical
wavelengths and along-track horizontal wavenumbers are
provided, as well as gravity wave temperature variances,
potential energies and absolute momentum fluxes. This global
data set captures the typical seasonal variations of these
parameters, as well as their spatial variations. The GRACILE
data set is suitable for scientific studies, and it can
serve for comparison with other instruments (ground based,
airborne, or other satellite instruments) and for comparison
with gravity wave distributions, both resolved and
parametrized, in GCMs and CCMs},
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)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-244},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.5194/essd-2017-109},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/842057},
}