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David C. Fritts
Researcher at Cora
Publications - 245
Citations - 16309
David C. Fritts is an academic researcher from Cora. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravity wave & Thermosphere. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 227 publications receiving 14924 citations. Previous affiliations of David C. Fritts include University of Colorado Boulder & National Waste & Recycling Association.
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Errant inferences of gravity wave momentum and heat fluxes using airglow and lidar instrumentation: Corrections and cautions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify measurement biases in previous applications of lidar and airglow data collected at the Starfire Optical Range and in Hawaii in order that subsequent data analyses will yield useful estimates of gravity wave fluxes, mean flow influences, and guidance for modeling studies in the future.
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Equatorial Dynamics Observed by Rockets, Radar, and Satellite During the CADRE/MALTED Campaign
Martin Friedrich,Charles L. Croskey,Gerald A. Lehmacher,John D. Mitchell,David C. Fritts,Richard A. Goldberg,Wesley E. Swartz,F. J. Schmidlin +7 more
TL;DR: The International Guard Rocket Campaign (MALTED) as mentioned in this paper was conducted from the Alcantara rocket site in northeastern Brazil as part of the International Guard Launch Program to study equatorial dynamics, irregularities, and instabilities in the ionosphere.
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The vorticity dynamics of instability and turbulence in a breaking internal gravity wave
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional simulation of a breaking internal gravity wave in a stratified, compressible, and sheared fluid is performed to investigate the vorticity dynamics accompanying the transition from laminar to turbulent flow.
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Mesospheric Mountain Wave Activity in the Lee of the Southern Andes
Pierre-Dominique Pautet,Michael J. Taylor,David C. Fritts,Diego Janches,Natalie Kaifler,Andreas Dörnbrack,José Luis Hormaechea +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM) and the Southern Argentina Agile MEteor Radar (SAAMER) have been operated simultaneously during the Austral winter 2018 from Rio Grande, Argentina (538°S).
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Simple Stability Limits for Vertically Propagating Unstable Modes in a tanh(z) Velocity Profile with a Rigid Lower Boundary.
TL;DR: In this article, the location of the various unstable modes can be explained in part in terms of the modal structure above and below the velocity shear and the necessary condition for dynamical instability, Ric < 1/4.