Articles | Volume 19, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3395-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3395-2019
Research article
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18 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 18 Mar 2019

A study of the dynamical characteristics of inertia–gravity waves in the Antarctic mesosphere combining the PANSY radar and a non-hydrostatic general circulation model

Ryosuke Shibuya and Kaoru Sato

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The first long-term simulation using the high-top non-hydrostatic general circulation model (NICAM) was executed to analyze mesospheric gravity waves. A new finding in this paper is that the spectrum of the vertical fluxes of the zonal momentum has an isolated peak at frequencies slightly lower than f at latitudes from 30 to 75° S at a height of 70 km. This study discusses the physical mechanism for an explanation of the existence of the isolated spectrum peak in the mesosphere.
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