CCM Validation Activity for SPARC (CCMVal) - Dynamics
Dr. Martin Dameris
DLR Institut fØr Physik der AtmosphÄre
Postfach 11 16
Oberpfaffenhofen
D-82234 Wessling
GERMANY
Dr. Paul A. Newman
Code 613.3 - Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch
Laboratory for Atmospheres
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
phone: 301-614-5985
fax: 301-614-5903
| Process | Diagnostic | Variables | Data | References | Contact |
| Forcing and propagation of planetary waves | Wave frequency analysis (WFA)
Planetary Wave (PW) spectrum (variances & co-variances) |
Temperature, Geopotential Height, horizontal
winds
High-frequency (daily) data |
Met. Analyses ** | Mager and Dameris, 2004 | F.
Mager
M. Dameris |
| Hemispheric Ozone Variability Indices | Total column ozone over several years | Satellite data of total column ozone (e.g. TOMS, GOME) | Erbertseder et al., 2004 | T. Erbertseder | |
| Stratospheric response to wave drag | Annual cycle of temperatures in tropics and extra-tropics | Zonal monthly mean temperature, residual streamfunction | Met. Analyses **,
in-situ and space-based observations, profile data |
Shine et al., 2003 | |
| PW flux vs. polar temperature, lagged in time | Heat flux (v'T') at 100 hPa (Jan/Feb)
Temperature at 50 hPa (March) Zonal monthly means |
Austin et al., 2003
Newman et al., 2001 |
P. Newman | ||
| Vortex definition, structure & occurrence of sudden/final warmings | Potential Vorticity, horizontal winds, Temperature,
Area colder than PSC T, Vortex area/equiv. latitude
Warming statistics High-freq (daily) 3D fields |
Labitzke et al., ?
Newman et al., ? |
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| Downward control integral, also scatter plot of PWD v GWD | w* from model
PWD, GWD, other drag zonal and monthly means |
Met. analyses **
total drag inferred from diabatic heating calculation |
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| Persistence (e.g., leading EOFs), including Holton-Tan | Geopotential Height,
Temperature
Multi-year time series (means, frequency spectra) |
Met. analyses ** | Zhou et al., 2000 | ||
| QBO, SAO *** | Amplitude and phase (SAO) of u and temperature | u and T, zonal and monthly means | Met. analyses ** | Giorgetta et al., 1999
Butchart et al. , 2003 |
M. Giorgetta |
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Last Updated: 2005-10-22
Author: Dr. Paul A. Newman
(NASA/GSFC, Code 613.3) (Paul.A.Newman@nasa.gov)
Responsible NASA organization/official: Dr. Paul A. Newman, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch