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STP12 Abstracts<br />

Berlin, 12 - 16 July <strong>2010</strong><br />

SCOSTEP Symposium <strong>2010</strong><br />

Middle atmosphere sources of non-migrating tides, <strong>an</strong>d non-linear interaction of tidal<br />

components<br />

Suvorova Ekaterina 1 , Jacobi Christoph 2 , Pogoreltsev Alex<strong>an</strong><strong>der</strong> 1<br />

1 Russi<strong>an</strong> State Hydrometeorological University, 2 University of Leipzig, <strong>Institut</strong>e for Meteorology<br />

The tidal oscillations of the wind <strong>an</strong>d temperature are one of the basic processes which are<br />

responsible for the formation of dynamical <strong>an</strong>d thermal regimes in the mesosphere <strong>an</strong>d lower<br />

thermosphere (MLT) region. The study of the variability of atmospheric tides <strong>an</strong>d their<br />

sources is the key for un<strong>der</strong>st<strong>an</strong>ding of the energetics <strong>an</strong>d dynamics of this atmospheric<br />

region. On the base of simulation with the Middle <strong>an</strong>d Upper Atmosphere Model (MUAM)<br />

the relative role those sources of nonmigrating tides is consi<strong>der</strong>ed that are situated in the<br />

middle atmosphere. It is shown that when pl<strong>an</strong>etary waves are strong in the stratosphere (for<br />

inst<strong>an</strong>ce, during sudden stratospheric warming events), the main middle atmosphere<br />

contribution into the generation of nonmigrating tides is nonlinear interaction between<br />

migrating tides <strong>an</strong>d the stationary pl<strong>an</strong>etary wave with zonal wave number m=1. Largescale<br />

longitudinal ozone inhomogeneities lead to additional sources of nonmigrating semidiurnal<br />

(m = 1) <strong>an</strong>d diurnal (m = 2) tides. Filtration of the thermal sources of the different tidal<br />

components in the MUAM allows us to investigate the generation of secondary migrating<br />

tides due to nonlinear interaction between the primary thermal tides <strong>an</strong>d estimate the<br />

contribution of the diurnal <strong>an</strong>d semidiurnal tides to the formation of the zonally averaged<br />

circulation in the MLT region.

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