EGU2020-4997
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4997
EGU General Assembly 2020
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Sensitivity of resolved gravity wave momentum fluxes on different background separation methods in a high resolution simulation.

Zuzana Procházková1, Petr Šácha1,2, Aleš Kuchař1, Petr Pišoft1, and Christopher Kruse3
Zuzana Procházková et al.
  • 1Charles Univesity, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Czechia (zuza.proch@gmail.com)
  • 2Institute of Meteorology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
  • 3Advanced Study Program, NCAR, Boulder, USA

Internal gravity waves (GWs) and their interaction with the atmospheric circulation present a complex problem for global climate models (GCMs) due to a variety of spatial and temporal scales involved. GWs and their effects in GCMs are parameterized by employing various simplifications and restrictions
(propagation, spectrum). Also, our incomplete knowledge of the GW properties in the real atmosphere complicates the situation. Global (satellite) observations of the GW activity are spatiotemporally sparse, making the quantification of the GW interaction with the circulation hardly possible. Recently, atmospheric models capable of resolving most of the GW spectrum have been emerging due to the increasing performance of computing systems. It is increasingly acknowledged that a combination of various types of observations with dedicated high-resolution, GW resolving, simulations has a potential to provide the most precise information about GWs. This combination will allow us to better understand the uncertainty of satellite observations of GW activity, which in turn will be used to develop new GW parameterizations or in development of GW resolving models.
In this study, we will analyze sensitivity of GW momentum flux and its divergence on background separation (and other GW detection) methods and approximations (Boussinesq, anelastic) used in the formulas. We analyze data from high-resolution model simulations produced for an observing system simulation experiment of the ISSI team "New Quantitative Constraints on Orographic GW Stress and Drag" (to be introduced in an invited presentation by Ch. Kruse).

How to cite: Procházková, Z., Šácha, P., Kuchař, A., Pišoft, P., and Kruse, C.: Sensitivity of resolved gravity wave momentum fluxes on different background separation methods in a high resolution simulation., EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-4997, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4997, 2020.

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