Forcing mechanisms of the migrating quarterdiurnal tide

Geißler, Christoph; Jacobi, Christoph; Lilienthal, Friederike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-527-2020

Articles | Volume 38, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-527-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-527-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 38, issue 2

Regular paper

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20 Apr 2020

Regular paper |

| 20 Apr 2020

Forcing mechanisms of the migrating quarterdiurnal tide

Christoph Geißler, Christoph Jacobi, and Friederike Lilienthal

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Short summary

This is an extensive model study to analyze the migrating quarterdiurnal solar tide (QDT) and its forcing mechanisms in the middle atmosphere. We first show a climatology of the QDT amplitudes and examine the contribution of the different forcing mechanisms, including direct solar, nonlinear and gravity wave forcing, on the QDT amplitude. We then investigate the destructive interference between the individual forcing mechanisms.