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Radar wind profiler observations of solar semidiurnal atmospheric tides

Author(s) -

Whiteman C. David,

Bian X.

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

geophysical research letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007

H-Index - 273

eISSN - 1944-8007

pISSN - 0094-8276

DOI - 10.1029/95gl00816

Subject(s) - longitude , troposphere , atmospheric tide , geology , latitude , atmospheric sciences , wind profiler , amplitude , radar , thermosphere , meteorology , geodesy , geophysics , ionosphere , physics , telecommunications , quantum mechanics , computer science

Semidiurnal solar tides in the mid‐latitude troposphere are investigated using harmonic analysis of 404 MHz radar profiler wind data obtained from a wide longitude zone in the U.S. The tides are apparent above a 1000‐m‐deep surface layer and increase in amplitude with height, attaining speeds of 0.5–0.7 m/s at 5–7 km. Observed wind characteristics agree well with tidal characteristics obtained with a dynamical model driven by observed global semidiurnal horizontal pressure gradients.

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