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R. Michael Jones
Researcher at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Publications - 26
Citations - 312
R. Michael Jones is an academic researcher from Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravity wave & Internal wave. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 26 publications receiving 268 citations. Previous affiliations of R. Michael Jones include University of Colorado Boulder & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.69°E), Antarctica: 1. Vertical wavelengths, periods, and frequency and vertical wave number spectra
Jian Zhao,Jian Zhao,Xinzhao Chu,Xinzhao Chu,Cao Chen,Cao Chen,Xian Lu,Xian Lu,Weichun Fong,Weichun Fong,Zhibin Yu,Zhibin Yu,R. Michael Jones,Brendan R. Roberts,Brendan R. Roberts,Andreas Dörnbrack +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an Fe Boltzmann lidar to characterize the vertical wavelengths, periods, vertical phase speeds, frequency spectra, and vertical wave number spectra of stratospheric gravity waves from 30 to 50 km altitude.
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Ray Theory for Lossy Media
TL;DR: In this article, an extension of Fermat's principle, in which the complex phase refractive index is used instead of only the real part, expresses both of these criteria and leads to a corresponding extension of Snell's law or of Haselgrove's equations to calculate the ray path.
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Lidar Observations of Stratospheric Gravity Waves From 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84°S, 166.69°E), Antarctica: 2. Potential Energy Densities, Lognormal Distributions, and Seasonal Variations.
Xinzhao Chu,Xinzhao Chu,Jian Zhao,Jian Zhao,Xian Lu,Xian Lu,V. Lynn Harvey,R. Michael Jones,Erich Becker,Cao Chen,Cao Chen,Weichun Fong,Weichun Fong,Zhibin Yu,Zhibin Yu,Brendan R. Roberts,Brendan R. Roberts,Andreas Dörnbrack +17 more
TL;DR: It is found that large values of E¯pm during wintertime occur when McMurdo is well inside the polar vortex, and E¯PM variations in winter are mainly due to variations of gravity wave generation in the troposphere and stratosphere and Doppler shifting by the mean stratospheric winds.
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Infrasound from convective storms. III. Propagation to the ionosphere
R. Michael Jones,T. M. Georges +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the spectral features of infrasound observed in the ionosphere and believed to be radiated by severe thunderstorms were modeled mathematically, and the dominant 2-5-min wave period was explained as an effect of atmospheric filtering; shorter periods are excessively attenuated by absorption in transit to ionosphere, and longer periods are attenuated in portions of the atmosphere where the waves are evanescent.
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Dissipative Waves Excited by Gravity-Wave Encounters with the Stably Stratified Planetary Boundary Layer
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that the strata of strong echo returns frequently revealed by remote-sensor records of the stably stratified planetary bound layer (PBL) represent the wavefronts of dissipative waves (viscous and thermal-conduction waves) excited by gravity-wave encounters with the PBL and the earth's surface.