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@ARTICLE{Alexander:9774,
author = {Alexander, M.J. and Geller, M. and McLandress, C. and
Polavarapu, S. and Preusse, P. and Sassi, F. and Sato, K.
and Eckermann, S.D. and Ern, M. and Hertzog, A. and
Kawatani, Y. and Pulido, M. and Shaw, T. and Sigmond, M. and
Vincent, R. and Watanabe, S.},
title = {{R}ecent developments in gravity wave effects in climate
models and the global distribution of gravity wave momentum
flux from observations and models},
journal = {Quarterly journal of the Royal Meteorological Society},
volume = {136},
issn = {0035-9009},
address = {Weinheim [u.a.]},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {PreJuSER-9774},
pages = {1103 - 1124},
year = {2010},
note = {This work is part of an ongoing activity within the World
Climate Research Programme's (WCRP) Stratospheric Processes
and their Role in Climate (SPARC) project. The authors thank
the SPARC International Project Office for its help with
organizing and facilitating the workshop where this
manuscript was initiated. Additional support for MJA came
from NASA's Earth Science Mission Directorate (contract
#NNH08CD37C) and the National Science Foundation's Physical
and Dynamic Meteorology Program (Award #0632378), and for
SDE and MJA from NASA contract #NNH08AE431.},
abstract = {Recent observational and theoretical studies of the global
properties of small-scale atmospheric gravity waves have
highlighted the global effects of these waves on the
circulation from the surface to the middle atmosphere. The
effects of gravity waves on the large-scale circulation have
long been treated via parametrizations in both climate and
weather-forecasting applications. In these parametrizations,
key parameters describe the global distributions of
gravity-wave momentum flux, wavelengths and frequencies.
Until recently, global observations could not define the
required parameters because the waves are small in scale and
intermittent in occurrence. Recent satellite and other
global datasets with improved resolution, along with
innovative analysis methods, are now providing constraints
for the parametrizations that can improve the treatment of
these waves in climate-prediction models. Research using
very-high-resolution global models has also recently
demonstrated the capability to resolve gravity waves and
their circulation effects, and when tested against
observations these models show some very realistic
properties. Here we review recent studies on gravity-wave
effects in stratosphere-resolving climate models, recent
observations and analysis methods that reveal global
patterns in gravity-wave momentum fluxes and results of
very-high-resolution model studies, and we outline some
future research requirements to improve the treatment of
these waves in climate simulations. Copyright (C) 2010 Royal
Meteorological Society and Crown in the right of Canada},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK491},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000281403100001},
doi = {10.1002/qj.637},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/9774},
}