Articles | Volume 6, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3169-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3169-2013
Research article
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20 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 20 Nov 2013

On the determination of gravity wave momentum flux from GPS radio occultation data

A. Faber, P. Llamedo, T. Schmidt, A. de la Torre, and J. Wickert

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Alexander, M. J., Geller, M., McLandress, C., Polavarapu, S., Preusse, P., Sassi, F., Sato, K., Eckermann, S., Ern, M., Herzog, A., Kawatani, Y., Pulido, M., Shaw, T. A., Sigmond, M., Vincent, R., and Watanabe, S.: Recent developments in gavity-wave effects in climate models and the global distribution of gravity-wave momentum flux from observations and models, Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 136, 1103–1124, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.637, 2010.
Alexander, P. and de la Torre, A.: A Method to Infer Three Cartesian Wavelength of a Mountain Wave from Three Soundings, Am. Meteorol. Soc. Notes and Correspondence, 49, 2069–2074, https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JAMC2348.1, 2010.
Alexander, P., de la Torre, A., and Llamedo, P.: Interpretation of gravity wave signatures in GPS radio occultations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16117, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JD009390, 2008a.
Alexander, S. P., Tsuda, T., and Kawatani, Y.: COSMIC GPS Observations of the Northern Hemisphere winter stratospheric gravity waves and comparisons with an atmospheric general circulation model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L10808, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL033174, 2008b.
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