Atmospheric inertia-gravity waves retrieved from level-2 data of the satellite microwave limb sounder Aura/MLS

Hocke, Klemens; Lainer, Martin; Moreira, Lorena; Hagen, Jonas; Fernandez Vidal, Susana; Schranz, Franziska

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-781-2016

Articles | Volume 34, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-781-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-781-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 34, issue 9

Regular paper

|

19 Sep 2016

Regular paper |

| 19 Sep 2016

Atmospheric inertia-gravity waves retrieved from level-2 data of the satellite microwave limb sounder Aura/MLS

Klemens Hocke, Martin Lainer, Lorena Moreira, Jonas Hagen, Susana Fernandez Vidal, and Franziska Schranz

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-781-2016-supplement

Data sets

Level-2 data Aura Validation Data Center (AVDC) http://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Short summary

The dense horizontal sampling of atmospheric temperature profiles by the microwave limb sounder MLS on the NASA satellite AURA permit the estimation of global distributions of inertia-gravity waves (IGWs) in the middle atmosphere. We present and discuss the estimated global distributions of IGWs for July 2015 and January 2016. A dependence on the zonal wind distribution is obvious. The distributions of IGWs are a bit similar to the global distributions of small-scale gravity waves.