Mentor
Titus Yuan
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2020
First Page
1
Last Page
11
Abstract
The Utah State University Sodium lidar observatory, hosted in Science and Engineering Research building at Logan campus, measures the winds and temperature near the boundary of eddy diffusion dominated upper atmosphere between 80 and 110-km, where various atmospheric internal waves, especially atmospheric gravity waves (buoyancy waves), play important roles in the dynamics and chemistry. In this study, using a hodographic algorithm, the lidar data were analyzed to extract critical parameters of these gravity waves detected in this region, such as horizontal propagating phase velocity and wavelength. Results were compared with the independent Advanced Atmospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM) observations, co-located at Utah State University.
Recommended Citation
Ormsby, Jeffrey, "Hodographic Analysis of Na Lidar Data to Measure Atmospheric Gravity Wave Parameters" (2020). Physics Capstone Projects. Paper 91.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/phys_capstoneproject/91