Abstract
The effects of topographically forced planetary wave breaking on eddy transport in the stratosphere are examined for zonal wavenumbers 1 and 2. Zonally averaged basic states representative of Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) winter conditions are used. Waves 1 and 2 each have significant wave breaking effects in the extratropical stratosphere during NH winter, whereas only wave 1 is important during SH winter. During NH winter, eddy mixing is dominated by wave 2 in the lower stratosphere and by wave 1 in the upper stratosphere and at the tropopause at low latitudes. The eddy diffusion effects due to the combined influence of waves 1 and 2 are much stronger in NH winter than in SH winter.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2953-2956 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Geophysical Research Letters |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 1995 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geophysics
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences