TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kruse, Christopher G.
AU  - Joan Alexander, M.
AU  - Hoffmann, Lars
AU  - Niekerk, Annelize van
AU  - Polichtchouk, Inna
AU  - Bacmeister, Julio T.
AU  - Holt, Laura
AU  - Plougonven, Riwal
AU  - Šácha, Petr
AU  - Wright, Corwin
AU  - Sato, Kaoru
AU  - Shibuya, Ryosuke
AU  - Gisinger, Sonja
AU  - Ern, Manfred
AU  - Meyer, Catrin
AU  - Stein, Olaf
TI  - Observed and Modeled Mountain Waves from the Surface to the Mesosphere Near the Drake Passage
JO  - Journal of the atmospheric sciences
VL  - 79
IS  - 4
SN  - 0022-4928
CY  - Boston, Mass.
PB  - American Meteorological Soc.
M1  - FZJ-2022-00440
SP  - 909–932
PY  - 2022
AB  - Four state-of-the-science numerical weather prediction (NWP) models were used to perform mountain wave- (MW) resolving hind-casts over the Drake Passage of a 10-day period in 2010 with numerous observed MW cases. The Integrated Forecast System (IFS) and the Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) model were run at Δx ≈ 9 and 13 km globally. TheWeather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the Met Office Unified Model (UM) were both configured with a Δx = 3 km regional domain. All domains had tops near 1 Pa (z ≈ 80 km). These deep domains allowed quantitative validation against Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) observations, accounting for observation time, viewing geometry, and radiative transfer.All models reproduced observed middle-atmosphere MWs with remarkable skill. Increased horizontal resolution improved validations. Still, all models underrepresented observed MW amplitudes, even after accounting for model effective resolution and instrument noise, suggesting even at Δx ≈ 3 km resolution, small-scale MWs are under-resolved and/or over-diffused. MWdrag parameterizations are still necessary in NWP models at current operational resolutions of Δx ≈ 10 km. Upper GW sponge layers in the operationally configured models significantly, artificially reduced MW amplitudes in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere. In the IFS, parameterized GW drags partly compensated this deficiency, but still, total drags were ≈ 6 time smaller than that resolved at Δx ≈ 3 km. Meridionally propagating MWs significantly enhance zonal drag over the Drake Passage. Interestingly, drag associated with meridional fluxes of zonal momentum (i.e. u'v') were important; not accounting for these terms results in a drag in the wrong direction at and below the polar night jet.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000808410000001
DO  - DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0252.1
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/905148
ER  -