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Research Scientist
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Gravity waves generated by storms

Several of our group's publications on regional modeling of gravity waves generated by convection:

Stephan and Alexander (2015): Realistic simulations of atmospheric gravity waves over the continental US using precipitation radar data, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 7(2), 823-835, doi:10.1002/2014MS000396.

Stephan and Alexander (2014): Summer season squall line simulations: Sensitivity of gravity waves to physics parameterization and implications for their parameterization in global climate models, J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 3376–3391.

Evan et al. (2012b): WRF simulations of convectively-generated gravity waves in opposite QBO phases. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D12117, doi:10.1029/2011JD017302.

Evan et al. (2012a): Model study of intermediate-scale tropical inertia-gravity waves and comparison to TWP-ICE campaign observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 591-610, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-051.1.

Grimsdell et al. (2010): Model study of waves generated by convection with direct validation via satellite, J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 1617-1631.

Kuester et al. (2008): A model study of gravity waves over Hurricane Humberto (2001), J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3231-3246.

Alexander et al. (2006): Generation and trapping of gravity waves from convection with comparison to parameterization, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2963-2977.

[Alexander et al. [2004]:

[Alexander and Holton (2004): On the spectrum of vertically propagating gravity waves generated by a transient heat source, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 4, 923-932.

Beres et al. [2004]: A method of specifying the gravity wave spectrum above convection based on latent heating properties and background wind, J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 324-337.

Beres et al. [2002]: Effects of tropospheric wind shear on the spectrum of convectively generated gravity waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1805-1824.

Piani et al. [2000]: A numerical study of three-dimensional gravity waves triggered by deep tropical convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3689-3702.

Holton and Alexander [1999]: Gravity waves in the mesosphere generated by tropospheric convection. Tellus, 51A-B, 45-58.

Pandya and Alexander [1999]: Linear stratospheric gravity waves above convective thermal forcing. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2434-2446.

Alexander and Holton [1997]: A model study of zonal forcing in the equatorial stratosphere by convectively induced gravity waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 408-419.