Title
Extraction of momentum flux of monochromatic gravity waves using spectroscopic imaging
Abstract
Atmospheric gravity waves play a significant role in the dynamics and thermal balance of the upper atmosphere. The vertical fluxes of horizontal momentum characterizing the cross-correlation between the wave-induced vertical wind perturbations and the associated horizontal wind have proved to be difficult to measure. In this paper, we develop a novel technique for calculating momentum fluxes of monochromatic wave components from spectroscopic imaging and meteor radar wind measurement. Our approach uses the two-dimensional (2-D) cross-periodogram of two consecutive Doppler-shifted time differenced (TD) images to identify a dominant wave component and extract the wave parameters. Besides estimating the average perturbation of the dominant wave in the whole field of view (FOV), 2-D short-time Fourier transform is applied to the TD images to obtain the strongest perturbation of this wave in a portion of the FOV. With the wave parameters acquired, we calculate the momentum flux of the dominant wave component. The alternation of the direction and strength of dominant waves can be tracked for each clear night. Nightly averages provide information for investigating seasonal and geographical variation in momentum flux of gravity waves.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1295328
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fourier transforms,gravity waves,momentum,nightglow,upper atmosphere,wind,2d cross periodogram,2d short time fourier transform,doppler shifted time differenced image,atmospheric gravity waves,meteor radar wind measurement,momentum flux,monochromatic gravity waves,spectroscopic imaging,thermal balance,wave induced vertical wind perturbation,doppler shift,parameter estimation,gravity,cross correlation,gravity wave,spectroscopy,radar imaging,atmospheric waves,field of view,seasonality,short time fourier transform,atmosphere
Conference
6
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7929-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jing Tang100.34
Kamalabadi, F.200.34
Liu, A.Z.300.34
Swenson, G.R.400.34