A New Coupled Weather and Wave Model for Gravity Wave Propagation from Troposphere Weather Systems Deep into the Ionosphere

Abstract

The coupled model will consist of two parts: (1) the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory regional weather model COAMPS, which will be used to model tropospheric weather systems and their generation of gravity waves; and (2) a wave propagation model, which will be initialized by COAMPS and will be used to follow the subsequent propagation of the gravity waves deep into the ionosphere, as high as 400 km altitude. The project will concentrate on the neutral atmosphere but will be oriented toward an ultimate goal of forecasting medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances forced from below by gravity waves.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Mar 03, 2017
Source ID
N000141712187

Entities

People

  • Dave Broutman

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.