Articles | Volume 15, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-8459-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-8459-2015
Research article
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30 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 30 Jul 2015

Global distributions of overlapping gravity waves in HIRDLS data

C. J. Wright, S. M. Osprey, and J. C. Gille

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Data from the HIRDLS instrument are used to study the numerical variability of gravity waves. Observed distributions are dominated by long-vertical-short-horizontal-wavelength waves, with a similar spectral form at all locations. We further divide our data into subspecies by wavelength, and investigate variation in these subspecies in time and space. We show that the variations associated with particular phenomena arise due to changes in specific parts of the spectrum.
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