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WAVE partners Corwin Wright and Lars Hoffmann contributed to a Nature paper entitled “Tonga volcano eruption created puzzling ripples in Earth’s atmosphere”. See unprecedented observations of atmospheric waves visible in the aftermath of this impulsive eruption. Images from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA’s Aqua satellite show dozens of concentric circles, which are fast-moving atmospheric […]

WAVE investigators published a paper entitled “A high‐resolution whole‐atmosphere model with resolved gravity waves and specified large‐scale dynamics in the troposphere and stratosphere”. This paper shows that nudging in spectral space allows for self-consistent simulation of gravity waves up to the thermosphere. Becker, E., S.L. Vadas, K. Bossert, V.L. Harvey, & C. Zülicke (2021), A

WAVE investigators published a paper entitled “Impact of Thermospheric Wind Data Assimilation on Ionospheric Electrodynamics using a Coupled Whole Atmosphere Data Assimilation System”. The paper assesses the impact of assimilating thermospheric wind observations on the ionospheric electrodynamics. Hsu, C.-T., N. M. Pedatella, & J. L. Anderson (2021), Impact of Thermospheric Wind Data Assimilation on Ionospheric

WAVE investigators published a paper entitled “Characteristics of gravity wave horizontal phase velocity spectra in the mesosphere over the Antarctic stations, Syowa and Davis”.  The paper presents differences in gravity wave activity at two Antarctic locations. They found that higher gravity wave power in the eastward high phase velocity domain at Davis was contributed to

WAVE investigators published a paper entitled “Using vertical phase differences to better resolve 3D gravity wave structure”.  The paper develops a gravity wave analysis method that can identify and characterize high-intrinsic-frequency gravity waves in AIRS temperature retrievals. These high frequency waves with long vertical wavelengths are key to ITM impacts.  Previous methods limited vertical wavelengths

WAVE investigators published a paper entitled “Thermospheric Traveling Atmospheric Disturbances in Austral Winter From GOCE and CHAMP”.  The paper found thermospheric traveling atmospheric disturbances in austral winter to be mainly induced by orographic waves during geomagnetic quiet time. Traveling atmospheric disturbances during geomagnetic active times are likely caused by auroral generated gravity waves. Xu, S.,

WAVE partners published a paper entitled “Intercomparison of Middle Atmospheric Meteorological Analyses for the Northern Hemisphere Winter 2009-2010” in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. In order to have confidence in atmospheric predictions, it is important to know how well different numerical model simulations of the Earth’s atmosphere agree with one another. This work compares four