Propagation of non-stationary acoustic-gravity waves at thermospheric temperatures corresponding to different solar activity

被引:11
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作者
Gavrilov, N. M. [1 ]
Kshevetskii, S. P. [2 ]
Koval, A. V. [1 ]
机构
[1] St Petersburg State Univ, Atmospher Phys Dept, St Petersburg, Russia
[2] Immanuel Kant Baltic Fed Univ, Theoret Phys Dept, Kaliningrad, Russia
关键词
Acoustic-gravity waves; Solar activity; Thermosphere; Wave propagation; Numerical simulation; Wave-induced jets; UPPER-ATMOSPHERE; INTERNAL WAVES; PART II; BREAKING; INTENSITY; MIDDLE; SHEAR; DISTURBANCES; VARIABILITY; TROPOSPHERE;
D O I
10.1016/j.jastp.2018.03.021
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
Numerical simulation of non-stationary nonlinear acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs) propagating from the surface wave source to the thermosphere reveals that their propagation conditions and parameters depend on changes in background temperature, density, composition, molecular viscosity and heat conduction caused by changes in solar activity (SA). At small wave source amplitudes, AGW amplitudes, momentum fluxes and wave accelerations of the mean flow are slightly larger at altitudes about 150 km at low SA because of smaller mean density and rho(-1/2)(0) dependence of wave amplitudes at low dissipation. Larger kinematic coefficients of molecular viscosity and heat conduction lead to stronger decrease of wave amplitudes and momentum fluxes at altitudes above 150 km at low SA. At large amplitudes of surface wave excitation, AGW breaking and smaller-scale inhomogeneities appear at altitudes 100-150 km, which are stronger at low SA. Increased dissipation of breaking AGWs may produce wave-induced jet streams with velocities close to the wave horizontal phase speed and near-critical layers at altitudes 110-150 km, which dramatically decrease amplitudes and momentum fluxes of the primary AGW mode propagating from the surface wave source. The wave-induced horizontal wind becomes smaller above altitude of 150 km and allows growing amplitudes of the primary wave mode partially penetrating through the near-critical layer and of secondary AGW modes, possibly generating in the wave induced jet stream. The wave amplitude grows at altitudes higher than 150 km is larger at high SA due to smaller velocities of wave-induced mean wind and smaller molecular viscosity and heat conduction. Accelerations of the mean flow by dissipating AGWs are generally larger at low SA. This determines faster grows of wave-induced jet streams in time at low SA. In almost all simulated cases, velocities of the wave-induced mean flows are higher at low SA compared to high SA. Resulting SA impact at a given thermospheric altitude depends on competition between AGW amplitude increase due to smaller molecular dissipation and smaller energy transfer to the wind-induced mean flow and amplitude decrease caused by larger density and stronger reflection at higher SA.
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页码:100 / 106
页数:7
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