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Description
Title
Low-Frequency Variability in the Stratosphere
Author(s)
Werth, David William
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Walter Robinson
Department of Study
Atmospheric Sciences
Discipline
Atmospheric Sciences
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Physics, Atmospheric Science
Language
eng
Abstract
"We have run a dry, nonlinear, primitive equation spectral model with no externally forced variability and with a realistic time mean state, and we have observed low frequency variability (LFV) in the stratosphere with timescales on the order of hundreds of days. Time lagged correlations have revealed that this variability is linked to LFV in the emission of longwaves from the troposphere. A set of linear model experiments is performed to determine the source of the stratospheric LFV. One set of runs reveal the lowest levels of the model troposphere as the source of most of the relevant forcing. A second set of runs forced with nonlinear terms has shown that the nonlinear interaction among shortwave, high-frequency eddy thermal anomalies in the troposphere has a ""beating"" effect which emits vertically propagating low-frequency longwaves. We also see that the eddies act in such a way as to offset the effects of linear temperature advection, allowing the thermal eddies to persist for long periods."
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