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Impact of gravity wave drag on the thermospheric circulation: implementation of a nonlinear gravity wave parameterization in a whole-atmosphere model
Yasunobu Miyoshi
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University,
Fukuoka, Japan
Erdal Yiğit
Space Weather Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Our numerical simulation shows that the drag due to the dissipation and/or breaking of the gravity wave plays an important role in the general circulation in the thermosphere. This means that the parameterization for the gravity wave drag is necessary for numerical simulation in the thermosphere.
Our numerical simulation shows that the drag due to the dissipation and/or breaking of the...
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