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Temperature profiles from two close lidars and a satellite to infer the structure of a dominant gravity wave

Alexander, Peter und de la Torre, Alejandro und Kaifler, Natalie und Kaifler, Bernd und Salvador, J. und Llamedo, P. und Hierro, R. und Hormaechea, J. L. (2020) Temperature profiles from two close lidars and a satellite to infer the structure of a dominant gravity wave. Earth and Space Science. American Geophysical Union (AGU). doi: 10.1029/2020EA001074. ISSN 2333-5084.

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Offizielle URL: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001074

Kurzfassung

Gravity waves (GW) are a crucial coupling mechanism for the exchange of energy and momentum flux (MF) between the lower, middle and upper layers of the atmosphere. Among the remote instruments used to study them, there has been a continuous increment in the last years in the installation and use of lidars (light detection and ranging) all over the globe. Two of them, which are only night-operating, are located in Río Gallegos (-69.3W, -51.6S) and Río Grande (-67.8W, -53.8S), in the neighborhood of the austral tip of South America. This is a well-known GW hotspot from late autumn to early spring. Neither the source for this intense activity nor the extent of its effects have been yet fully elucidated. In the last years, different methods that combine diverse retrieval techniques have been presented in order to describe the three-dimensional (3D) structure of observed GW, their propagation direction, their energy and the MF that they carry. Assuming the presence of a dominant GW in the covered region, we develop here a technique that uses the temperature profiles from two simultaneously working close lidars to infer the vertical wavelength, ground-based frequency and horizontal wavelength along the direction joining both instruments. If in addition within the time and spatial frame of both lidars there is also a retrieval from a satellite like SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry), then we show that it is possible to infer also the second horizontal wavelength and therefore reproduce the full 3D GW structure. Our method becomes verified with an example that includes tests that corroborate that both lidars and the satellite are sampling the same GW. The improvement of the Río Gallegos lidar performance could lead in the future to the observation of a wealth of cases during the GW high-season. Between 8 and 14 hours (depending on the month) of continuous nighttime data could be obtained in the stratosphere and mesosphere in simultaneous soundings from both ground-based lidars.

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Dokumentart:Zeitschriftenbeitrag
Titel:Temperature profiles from two close lidars and a satellite to infer the structure of a dominant gravity wave
Autoren:
AutorenInstitution oder E-Mail-AdresseAutoren-ORCID-iDORCID Put Code
Alexander, PeterCONICET, Ciudad Univ., Buenos Aires, ArgentinienNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
de la Torre, AlejandroUniv. Austral and CONICET, Pilar, ArgentinienNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Kaifler, NatalieDLR, IPAhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-6480NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Kaifler, BerndDLR, IPAhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5891-242XNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Salvador, J.Laser and Application Research Center, Villa Martelli, ArgentinienNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Llamedo, P.Univ. Austral and CONICET, Pilar, ArgentinienNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Hierro, R.Univ. Austral and CONICET, Pilar, ArgentinienNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Hormaechea, J. L.Univ. Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, ArgentinienNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:Mai 2020
Erschienen in:Earth and Space Science
Referierte Publikation:Ja
Open Access:Ja
Gold Open Access:Ja
In SCOPUS:Ja
In ISI Web of Science:Ja
DOI:10.1029/2020EA001074
Verlag:American Geophysical Union (AGU)
ISSN:2333-5084
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:gravity waves, lidar, satellite
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt
HGF - Programmthema:Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - Mittlere Atmosphäre
Standort: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institute & Einrichtungen:Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre > Lidar
Hinterlegt von: Kaifler, Dr. Natalie
Hinterlegt am:19 Mai 2020 10:17
Letzte Änderung:20 Jun 2021 15:53

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