GHOST: A Satellite Mission Concept for Persistent Monitoring of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Induced by Severe Storms: GHOST would continuously monitor storm-induced gravity waves, observing their development through complete storm life cycles in order to elucidate causal relationships between storm phenomena linked to latent heating and gravity wave production

Authors :: Tratt, David M.
Hackwell, John A.
Valant-Spaight, Bonnie L.
Walterscheid, Richard L.
Gelinas, Lynette J.
Hecht, James H.
Swenson, Charles M.
Lampen, Caleb P.
Alexander, M. Joan
Hoffmann, Lars
Nolan, David S.
Miller, Steven D.
Hall, Jeffrey L.
Atlas, Robert
Marks, Frank D., Jr.
Partain, Philip T.
Source :: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. September, 2018, Vol. 99 Issue 9, p1813, 17 p.
Publication Year :: 2018
Abstract: The prediction of tropical cyclone rapid intensification is one of the most pressing unsolved problems in hurricane forecasting. The signatures of gravity waves launched by strong convective updrafts are often [...]

Subjects :: Meteorological research
Gravity waves (Meteorology) -- Research
Windstorm forecasting -- Research
Tropical cyclones -- Research
Business
Earth sciences

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