Gravity Wave Processes

Kevin Hamilton is a professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Hawaii at Mano.

Some Problems Relating to the Observed Characteristics Of Gravity Waves In The Middle Atmosphere.- Gravity-Wave Parameters in the Lower Stratosphere.- Measurements of Intermittency in the Upper Stratosphere and Mesosphere.- Climatology and Hydrodynamic Sources of Internal Gravity Waves in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere.- Observational Studies of Gravity Waves Associated with Convection.- Experimental Constraints on Gravity Wave Parameterization from in Situ Measurements of Temperature and Turbulence.- Analysis of Intermittency in Aircraft Measurements of Velocity, Temperature and Atmospheric Tracers Using Wavelet Transforms.- Observations of Gravity Waves with the UARS Microwave Limb Sounder.- Maintenance of the Tropical Oscillations of Zonal-Mean Winds in the Middle Atmosphere by Convectively-Forced Gravity Waves.- Numerical Modelling of Inertia-Gravity Wave Emission by Fronts and Jets.- A Model of Non-Stationary Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere and Comparison to Observations.- The Propagation and Breaking of Gravity Waves Excited by Forcing in the Troposphere.- Estimate of Atmospheric Dissipation Derived from UARS/HRDI Measurements.- On The Nonlinear Interactions Between Gravity Waves in Shear Flows.- Gravity Wave Spectral Models and the Shapes of Gravity Wave Spectra at Low Vertical Wavenumbers.- Nonlinearity of the Saturation Spectrum.- Sensitivity Studies Using the Hines and Fritts Gravity Wave Drag Parameterizations.- Modelling the Seasonal Cycles and Equatorial Oscillations with A Parameterization of the Doppler Spread Gravity Wave Theory.- The Representation of Sub-Grid Scale Orography in GCMs.- The Effect of Parameterized Gravity Wave Drag on Simulations of the Middle Atmosphere During Northern Winter 1991/1992 - General Evolution.- The Parameterization ofGravity Wave Drag Based on the Nonlinear Diffusion of Wave Spectra.- Effects of Gravity Wave Drag in the Berlin Troposphere-Stratosphere-Mesophere GCM.- The Role of Parameterized Drag in a Troposphere-Stratosphere-Mesosphere General Circulation Model.- Seasonal Simulations with the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model: Sensitivity to a Combination of Orographic and Doppler Spread Parameterizations of Gravity Wave Drag.- Middle Atmosphere Simulations with the Echam4 Model: Sensitivity to the Doppler Spread Gravity Wave Parameterization.- The Mesosphere in the Extended UGAMP GCM.