Breaking of Thunderstorm-Generated Gravity Waves as a Source of Short-Period Ducted Waves at Mesopause Altitudes

Authors

Jonathan B. Snively, The Pennsylvania State UniversityFollow
Victor P. Pasko, The Pennsylvania State University

Submitting Campus

Daytona Beach

Department

Physical Sciences

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

12-19-2003

Abstract/Description

Numerical simulation results indicate that the breaking of atmospheric gravity waves generated by tropospheric convection can excite short-period secondary waves, which are trapped in the lower thermospheric duct and which closely resemble quasi-monochromatic structures commonly observed in airglow imaging experiments.

Publication Title

Geophysical Research Letters

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL018436

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Grant or Award Name

e National Science Foundation grant ATM-01-23020

Additional Information

Dr. Snively was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.

Scholarly Commons Citation

Snively, J. B., and V. P. Pasko, Breaking of thunderstorm-generated gravity waves as a source of short-period ducted waves at mesopause altitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(24), 2254, doi:10.1029/2003GL018436, 2003