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Articles | Volume 24, issue 5
Articles | Volume 24, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-3297-2024
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15 Mar 2024
Research article |  | 15 Mar 2024

Crucial role of obliquely propagating gravity waves in the quasi-biennial oscillation dynamics

Young-Ha Kim, Georg Sebastian Voelker, Gergely Bölöni, Günther Zängl, and Ulrich Achatz

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The quasi-biennial oscillation, which governs the tropical stratospheric circulation, is driven primarily by small-scale wave processes. We employ a novel method to realistically represent these wave processes in a global model, thereby revealing an aspect of the oscillation that has not been identified before. We find that the oblique propagation of waves, a process neglected by existing climate models, plays a pivotal role in the stratospheric circulation and its oscillation.
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