Articles | Volume 26, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-9541-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-9541-2026
Research article
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08 Jul 2026
Research article |  | 08 Jul 2026

Variability of local gravity wave spectra from data of a high-resolution icosahedral-grid global model

Zuzana Procházková, Erfan Mahmoudi, Ray Chew, Stamen Dolaptchiev, Claudia Christine Stephan, Georg Sebastian Völker, and Ulrich Achatz

Data sets

Local three-dimensional gravity wave spectra Zuzana Procházková et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20612524

Model code and software

Codes for analysis of local gravity wave spectra Zuzana Procházková et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20644673

pyCSA Ray Chew https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20634759

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The study analyzes gravity waves in a high-resolution simulation. A unique methodology is applied to compute three-dimensional gravity wave spectra while keeping the data on the original triangular model grid and using linear wave theory. The results show the structure of gravity waves that would remain unresolved by a model with lower horizontal resolution. It is shown that the spectra can be highly simplified, which can help constructing precise but efficient gravity wave parametrisation.
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