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Lai, C., Li, P. W., Xu, J. Y., Yuan, W., Yue, J., Liu, X., Masaru, K., and Qian, L. L. (2022). Joint observation of the concentric gravity wave event on the Tibetan Plateau. Earth Planet. Phys., 6(3), 219–227. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2022029
2022, 6(3): 219-227. doi: 10.26464/epp2022029
Joint observation of the concentric gravity wave event on the Tibetan Plateau
| 1. | School of Science, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China |
| 2. | State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 110000, China |
| 3. | Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA |
| 4. | College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 410700, China |
| 5. | Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 8190395, Japan |
A concentric gravity wave event was captured by a photographer in Nagarzê County (90.28°N, 28.33°E) between 02:00 and 04:00 (local time) on May 11, 2019. This concentric gravity wave event was also observed by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite and the all-sky airglow imager at Yangbajing station (90.5°E, 30.1°N). The temporal and spatial information on gravity waves from the photographs provided a rare opportunity to study the propagation of gravity waves over the Tibetan Plateau. According to wind and temperature data from the MERRA-2 reanalysis (Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2) and empirical models (NRLMSISE-00 [Naval Research Laboratory Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter Radar Exosphere] and HWM [horizontal wind model]), we inversely derived the propagation trajectory from the observed wave pattern to the source region by using the ray-tracing method. The source of the concentric gravity wave was identified as deep convection in Bangladesh (90.6°E, 25.0°N). The maximum background wind speed in the propagation direction (31.05 m/s) was less than the phase speed of 53 m/s, which is consistent with the wind-filtering theory.
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