Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC

The variability of non-migrating tides in the stratosphere is investigated using temperature data from Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM30), ERA-interim reanalysis and Formosa Satellite-3 and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) from 2006 t...

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Main Authors: Subhajit Debnath, Uma Das
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description The variability of non-migrating tides in the stratosphere is investigated using temperature data from Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM30), ERA-interim reanalysis and Formosa Satellite-3 and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) from 2006 to 2010 using a ±10-day window. CMAM30 and ERA results show that the amplitudes of non-migrating tides, DS0 and DW2, are negligible in the mid and high-latitude stratosphere, and the results from satellite datasets are significantly affected by aliasing in this region, in spite of using a smaller window size for analysis (±10 days). Significant short term variability ranging from 30 to 100 days is observed in DS0 and DW2 over the equatorial and tropical latitudes. These tides are seen as two prominent bands around the equator with DS0 maximising during boreal summers and DW2 maximising during boreal winters. These variabilities are compared with the variability in amplitude of the stationary planetary wave with wavenumber one (SPW1) in the high-latitude stratosphere using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT). It is found that during boreal winters, the variability of SPW1 at 10 hPa over 65<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mo>°</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> N is similar to that of DS0 and DW2 over the equator at 0.0007 hPa. This provides evidence that SPW1 from the high-altitude stratosphere moving upward and equator-ward could be interacting with the migrating diurnal tide and generating the non-migrating tides in the equatorial mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). The variabilities, however, are not comparable during summers, with SPW1 being absent in the Northern Hemisphere. It is thus concluded that non-linear interactions could be a source of non-migrating tidal variability in the equatorial MLT region during boreal winters, but during summers, the tidal variabilities have other sources in the lower atmosphere. The anti-symmetric nature of the vertical global structures indicates that these tides could be the result of global atmospheric oscillations proposed by the classical tidal theory.
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spelling doaj.art-723ae2df286944d8abbd71b314b82ca62023-11-16T19:02:24ZengMDPI AGAtmosphere2073-44332023-01-0114226510.3390/atmos14020265Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMICSubhajit Debnath0Uma Das1Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, IndiaIndian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, IndiaThe variability of non-migrating tides in the stratosphere is investigated using temperature data from Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM30), ERA-interim reanalysis and Formosa Satellite-3 and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) from 2006 to 2010 using a ±10-day window. CMAM30 and ERA results show that the amplitudes of non-migrating tides, DS0 and DW2, are negligible in the mid and high-latitude stratosphere, and the results from satellite datasets are significantly affected by aliasing in this region, in spite of using a smaller window size for analysis (±10 days). Significant short term variability ranging from 30 to 100 days is observed in DS0 and DW2 over the equatorial and tropical latitudes. These tides are seen as two prominent bands around the equator with DS0 maximising during boreal summers and DW2 maximising during boreal winters. These variabilities are compared with the variability in amplitude of the stationary planetary wave with wavenumber one (SPW1) in the high-latitude stratosphere using the continuous wavelet transform (CWT). It is found that during boreal winters, the variability of SPW1 at 10 hPa over 65<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mo>°</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> N is similar to that of DS0 and DW2 over the equator at 0.0007 hPa. This provides evidence that SPW1 from the high-altitude stratosphere moving upward and equator-ward could be interacting with the migrating diurnal tide and generating the non-migrating tides in the equatorial mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). The variabilities, however, are not comparable during summers, with SPW1 being absent in the Northern Hemisphere. It is thus concluded that non-linear interactions could be a source of non-migrating tidal variability in the equatorial MLT region during boreal winters, but during summers, the tidal variabilities have other sources in the lower atmosphere. The anti-symmetric nature of the vertical global structures indicates that these tides could be the result of global atmospheric oscillations proposed by the classical tidal theory.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/2/265non-migrating tideswavelet transformstratospherenon-linear interactions
spellingShingle Subhajit Debnath
Uma Das
Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
Atmosphere
non-migrating tides
wavelet transform
stratosphere
non-linear interactions
title Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
title_full Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
title_fullStr Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
title_full_unstemmed Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
title_short Short-Term Variability of Non-Migrating Diurnal Tides in the Stratosphere from CMAM30, ERA-Interim, and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
title_sort short term variability of non migrating diurnal tides in the stratosphere from cmam30 era interim and formosat 3 cosmic
topic non-migrating tides
wavelet transform
stratosphere
non-linear interactions
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/2/265
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