Skip to main content
Earth, Planets and Space
Download PDF

Volume 51 Supplement 7-8

Special Issue: Dynamics and Structure of the Mesopause Region (DYSMER)

  • Article
  • Published:

Numerical simulation of the 5-day and 16-day waves in the mesopause region

Earth, Planets and Space volume 51, pages 763–772 (1999)Cite this article

Abstract

The behavior of the 5-day and 16-day waves in the mesopause region is examined by using a general circulation model. The results are as follows. The 5-day wave is largely unaffected by the zonal mean zonal wind distribution, and the symmetric structure about the equator is clearly seen in the mesopause region. The amplitude of the 16-day wave in the summer hemisphere of the stratosphere is small. However, above the upper mesosphere, the 16-day wave appears not only in the winter hemisphere but also in the summer hemisphere. The penetration of the 16-day wave from the winter hemisphere to the summer hemisphere occurs near the mesopause region. The 16-day wave is mainly excited by heating due to the moist convection in the troposphere, and the vertical penetration into the middle atmosphere occurs. Furthermore, a correlation between the geomagnetic variation and the wind variation associated with the 5-day and 16-day waves is discussed.

References

  • CIRA86, COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere 1986 Part 2: Middle atmosphere, edited by D. Rees, J. J. Barnett, and K. Labitzke, 519 pp., Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1988.

  • Espy, P. J. and G. Witt, Observation of a quasi 16-day oscillation in the polar summer mesospheric temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1071–1074, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fomichev, V. I. and G. M. Shved, Parameterization of the radiative flux divergence in the 9.6 μm m O3 band, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 47, 1037–1049, 1985.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fomichev, V. I., A. A. Kutepov, R. A. Akmaev, and G. M. Shved, Parameterization of the 15 μm m CO2 band cooling in the middle atmosphere (15–115 km), J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 55, 7–18, 1993.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forbes, J. M. and S. Leveroni, Quasi 16-day oscillation in the ionsphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 981–984, 1992.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Forbes, J. M., M. E. Hagan, S. Miyahara, F. Vial, A. H. Manson, C. E. Meek, and Y. I. Portnyagin, Quasi 16-day oscillation in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 9149–9163, 1995.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Geisler, J. E. and R. E. Dickinson, The five-day wave on a sphere with realistic zonal winds, J. Atmos. Sci., 33, 632–641, 1976.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hayashi, Y., A generalized method of resolving disturbances into progres-sive and retroprogressive waves by space fourier and time cross-spectral analysis, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 49, 125–128, 1971.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hayashi, Y. and D. G. Golder, Transient planetary waves simulatedbyGFDL spectral general circulation models, Part1: Effects of mountains, J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 941–950, 1983.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hirooka, T. and I. Hirota, Normal mode Rossby waves observed in the upper stratosphere, Part2: Secondsymmetric modesofzonal wavenumber1and 2, J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 536–548, 1984.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kockarts, G., Nitric oxide cooling in the terrestrial thermosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 7, 137–140, 1980.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kohsiek, A., K. H. Glassmeier, and T. Hirooka, Periods of planetary waves in geomagnetic variations, Ann. Geophys., 13, 168–176, 1995.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Matsuno, T., Vertical propagation of stationary planetary waves in the winter northern hemisphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 27, 871–883, 1970.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miyahara, S. and Y. Miyoshi, Migrating and non-migrating atmospheric tides simulated by a middle atmosphere general circulation model, Adv. Space Res., 20, 1201–1207, 1997.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miyahara, S. and M. Ooishi, Variation of Sq induced by atmospheric tides simulated by a middle atmospheric general circulation model, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 49, 77–87, 1997.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miyoshi, Y. and T. Hirooka, A numerical experiment of excitation of the 5-day wave by a GCM, J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 1698–1707, 1999.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ormsby, J. F. A., Design of numerical filters with applications to missile data processing, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach., 8, 440–466, 1961.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Strobel, D. F., Parameterization of the atmospheric heating rate from 15 to 120 km due to O2 and O3 absorption of solar radiation, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 6225–6230, 1978.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Williams, C. R. and S. K. Avery, Analysis of long-period waves using the mesosphere—stratosphere—troposphere radar at Poker Flat, Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 20855–20861, 1992.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wu, D. L., P. B. Hays, and W. R. Skinner, Observations of the 5-day wave in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2733–2736, 1994.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Yasunobu Miyoshi

Authors
  1. Yasunobu Miyoshi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Yasunobu Miyoshi.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Miyoshi, Y. Numerical simulation of the 5-day and 16-day waves in the mesopause region. Earth Planet Sp 51, 763–772 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353235

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353235

Keywords