On the intermittency of orographic gravity wave hotspots  and its importance for middle atmosphere dynamics

Kuchar, Ales; Sacha, Petr; Eichinger, Roland; Jacobi, Christoph; Pisoft, Petr; Rieder, Harald E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-481-2020

Articles | Volume 1, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-481-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-481-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 1, issue 2

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29 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 29 Sep 2020

On the intermittency of orographic gravity wave hotspots and its importance for middle atmosphere dynamics

Ales Kuchar, Petr Sacha, Roland Eichinger, Christoph Jacobi, Petr Pisoft, and Harald E. Rieder

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AC1: 'Incorrect computation of residual term in Fig. S2', Ales Kuchar, 19 May 2020
RC1: 'reviewer comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Authors' comments to anonymous Referee #1', Ales Kuchar, 24 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review of manuscript by Kuchar et al', Corwin Wright, 21 Jun 2020
- AC3: 'Authors' comments to Corwin Wright', Ales Kuchar, 24 Aug 2020

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AR by Ales Kuchar on behalf of the Authors (25 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (27 Aug 2020) by Daniela Domeisen

RR by Corwin Wright (28 Aug 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Sep 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (15 Sep 2020) by Daniela Domeisen

AR by Ales Kuchar on behalf of the Authors (17 Sep 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Our study focuses on the impact of topographic structures such as the Himalayas and Rocky Mountains, so-called orographic gravity-wave hotspots. These hotspots play an important role in the dynamics of the middle atmosphere, in particular in the lower stratosphere. We study intermittency and zonally asymmetric character of these hotspots and their effects on the upper stratosphere and mesosphere using a new detection method in various modeling and observational datasets.