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Middle atmosphere localized gravity wave forcing: Formation, impact and long-term evolution

Subject Area Atmospheric Science
Term from 2021 to 2024
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 452408779
 
Final Report Year 2025

Final Report Abstract

The MATELO-FILE project, a cooperation of Universität Leipzig, Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany and the Department of Atmospheric Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, included the detection and modeling of gravity waves and their local hotspots. This in particular included their effect on the dynamics of the middle atmosphere. In addition to analysing existing climate model data, we performed UA-ICON model experiments with part of the gravity wave excluded. Our results confirm the compensation mechanism in the UA-ICON model, whereby the perturbed forcings in the gravity wave parameterization drag are often cancelled or compensated by a resolved large-scale wave driving of opposite sign. This also has effect on the mesosphere after sudden stratospheric warmings: when the non-orographic gravity-wave drag is absent, the anomalously enhanced resolved wave forcing in the mesosphere gives rise to the formation of elevated stratopause events at about 85 km. The changes in the residual circulation particularly due to the gravity wave contributions are also important in explaining the changes in the teleconnection of equatorial and high-latitude stratosphere (the so-called Holton-Tan-Mechanism), which weakens in a warmer climate.

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