Patricia M. Franke

TL;DR: The nonlinear behavior of quasi-monochromatic gravity wave breaking events is studied using a high-resolution, two-dimensional, fully nonlinear numerical model in this article, where a suite of supporting models is used alongside the nonlinear model to separate the effects of wave-wave and wave-mean flow interactions.

TL;DR: In this article, multiple-receiver MF radar returns from the mesosphere are used to investigate the relationship between spaced antenna (SA), radar interferometry (RI), and imaging Doppler interferometer (IDI) wind estimation techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared backscatter power and inferred velocities with the distributions of turbulence and the true velocity and revealed biases in the identification of active or intense turbulence and in the inferred Doppler spectrum and vertical velocity throughout the flow evolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the morphology of computed radar moments throughout the instability lifecycle for two radar configurations was analyzed to reveal the evolving character of radar backscatter and compare the radar velocity estimates with true velocities throughout the evolution, and to provide guidance, and cautions, for the interpretation of these dynamics in observational data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present pictures of individual wave events apparent in the lidar data using the temperature (plotted as potential temperature and spectra) to show the time evolution of the wave structure.