TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ern, Manfred
AU  - Trinh, Quang Thai
AU  - Preusse, Peter
AU  - Gille, John C.
AU  - Mlynczak, Martin G.
AU  - Russell III, James M.
AU  - Riese, Martin
TI  - GRACILE: a comprehensive climatology of atmospheric gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings
JO  - Earth system science data
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
SN  - 1866-3516
CY  - Katlenburg-Lindau
PB  - Copernics Publications
M1  - FZJ-2018-06860
SP  - 857 - 892
PY  - 2018
AB  - 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 1km 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. 
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000431066700002
DO  - DOI:10.5194/essd-10-857-2018
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/857906
ER  -