Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2937-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2937-2018
Research article
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18 May 2018
Research article |  | 18 May 2018

Derivation of gravity wave intrinsic parameters and vertical wavelength using a single scanning OH(3-1) airglow spectrometer

Sabine Wüst, Thomas Offenwanger, Carsten Schmidt, Michael Bittner, Christoph Jacobi, Gunter Stober, Jeng-Hwa Yee, Martin G. Mlynczak, and James M. Russell III

Data sets

SABER dataset SABER http://saber.gats-inc.com/data.php

Five minute means of OH(3-1) airglow rotational temperatures from the mesopause region obtained with GRIPS 14 located at the German Remote Sensing Data Center T. Offenwanger, C. Schmidt, S. Wüst, and M. Bittner https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCRSAT.R4OAR50I

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Short summary
OH*-spectrometer measurements allow the analysis of gravity wave ground-based periods, but spatial information cannot necessarily be deduced. We combine the approach of Wachter at al. (2015) in order to derive horizontal wavelengths (but based on only one OH* spectrometer) with additional information about wind and temperature and compute vertical wavelengths. Knowledge of these parameters is a precondition for the calculation of further information such as the wave group velocity.