Weather and Climate Dynamics
Weather and Climate Dynamics
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Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-927-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-927-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 6, issue 3
Research article
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09 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2025

Climatology, long-term variability and trend of resolved gravity wave drag in the stratosphere revealed by ERA5

Zuzana Procházková, Radek Zajíček, and Petr Šácha

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In this work, we compute and analyze resolved gravity wave drag in high-resolution reanalysis data. Studying gravity waves with a realistic dataset helps us to understand them better and potentially improve climate projections. Part of our results supports a key hypothesis governing the vertical distribution of parameterized gravity wave drag in climate models; however, we also provide evidence of the strong influence of horizontal wave propagation, a mechanism that is currently missing in the models.
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