Tomographic reconstruction of atmospheric gravity wave parameters from airglow observations

Song, Rui; Kaufmann, Martin; Ungermann, Jörn; Ern, Manfred; Liu, Guang; Riese, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4601-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4601-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4601-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 12

Research article

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30 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 30 Nov 2017

Tomographic reconstruction of atmospheric gravity wave parameters from airglow observations

Rui Song, Martin Kaufmann, Jörn Ungermann, Manfred Ern, Guang Liu, and Martin Riese

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RC1: 'Interesting methodical study', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Apr 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', rui song, 26 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', rui song, 26 Aug 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by rui song on behalf of the Authors (27 Aug 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 Sep 2017) by Markus Rapp

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Oct 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Oct 2017) by Markus Rapp

Short summary

Gravity waves (GWs) play an important role in atmospheric dynamics. In this work, we propose a new observation strategy for GWs in the mesopause region by combining limb and sub-limb satellite-borne remote sensing measurements for improving the spatial resolution of temperatures that are retrieved from atmospheric soundings. It shows that one major advantage of this observation strategy is that much smaller-scale GWs can be observed.