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Dr Scott Osprey FRMetS

Senior NCAS Research Scientist

Research theme

  • Climate physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Climate dynamics
  • Predictability of weather and climate
Scott.Osprey@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)82434,01865 (2)72923
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 111
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
SPARC QBOi
Explaining & Predicting Earth System Change
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Global distributions of overlapping gravity waves in HIRDLS data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus GmbH 15:14 (2015) 8459-8477

Authors:

CJ Wright, SM Osprey, JC Gille

Abstract:

Abstract. Data from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) instrument on NASA's Aura satellite are used to investigate the relative numerical variability of observed gravity wave packets as a function of both horizontal and vertical wavenumber, with support from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument on TIMED. We see that these distributions are dominated by large vertical and small horizontal wavenumbers, and have a similar spectral form at all heights and latitudes, albeit with important differences. By dividing our observed wavenumber distribution into particular subspecies of waves, we demonstrate that these distributions exhibit significant temporal and spatial variability, and that small-scale variability associated with particular geophysical phenomena such as the monsoon arises due to variations in specific parts of the observed spectrum. We further show that the well-known Andes/Antarctic Peninsula gravity wave hotspot during southern winter, home to some of the largest wave fluxes on the planet, is made up of relatively few waves, but with a significantly increased flux per wave due to their spectral characteristics. These results have implications for the modelling of gravity wave phenomena.
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Global distributions of overlapping gravity waves in HIRDLS data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Copernicus Publications 15:14 (2015) 8459-8477

Authors:

CJ Wright, SM Osprey, JC Gille
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The NuMI Neutrino Beam

(2015)

Authors:

P Adamson, K Anderson, M Andrews, R Andrews, I Anghel, D Augustine, A Aurisano, S Avvakumov, DS Ayres, B Baller, B Barish, G Barr, WL Barrett, RH Bernstein, J Biggs, M Bishai, A Blake, V Bocean, GJ Bock, DJ Boehnlein, D Bogert, K Bourkland, SV Cao, CM Castromonte, S Childress, BC Choudhary, JAB Coelho, JH Cobb, L Corwin, D Crane, JP Cravens, D Cronin-Hennessy, RJ Ducar, JK de Jong, AV Devan, NE Devenish, MV Diwan, AR Erwin, CO Escobar, JJ Evans, E Falk, GJ Feldman, TH Fields, R Ford, MV Frohne, HR Gallagher, V Garkusha, RA Gomes, MC Goodman, P Gouffon, N Graf, R Gran, N Grossman, K Grzelak, A Habig, SR Hahn, D Harding, D Harris, PG Harris, J Hartnell, R Hatcher, S Hays, K Heller, A Holin, J Huang, J Hylen, A Ibrahim, D Indurthy, GM Irwin, Z Isvan, DE Jaffe, C James, D Jensen, J Johnstone, T Kafka, SMS Kasahara, G Koizumi, S Kopp, M Kordosky, A Kreymer, K Lang, C Laughton, G Lefeuvre, J Ling, PJ Litchfield, L Loiacono, P Lucas, WA Mann, A Marchionni, ML Marshak, N Mayer, C McGivern, MM Medeiros, R Mehdiyev, JR Meier, MD Messier, DG Michael, RH Milburn, JL Miller, WH Miller, SR Mishra, S Moed Sher, CD Moore, J Morfin, L Mualem, S Mufson, S Murgia, M Murtagh, J Musser, D Naples, JK Nelson, HB Newman, RJ Nichol, JA Nowak, JO Connor, WP Oliver, M Olsen, M Orchanian, S Osprey, RB Pahlka, J Paley, A Para, RB Patterson, T Patzak, Z Pavlovic, G Pawloski, A Perch, EA Peterson, DA Petyt, MM Pfutzner, S Phan-Budd, RK Plunkett, N Poonthottathil, P Prieto, D Pushka, X Qiu, A Radovic, RA Rameika, J Ratchford, B Rebel, R Reilly, C Rosenfeld, HA Rubin, K Ruddick, MC Sanchez, N Saoulidou, L Sauer, J Schneps, D Schoo, A Schreckenberger, P Schreiner, P Shanahan, R Sharma, W Smart, C Smith, A Sousa, A Stefanik, N Tagg, RL Talaga, G Tassotto, J Thomas, J Thompson, MA Thomson, X Tian, A Timmons, D Tinsley, SC Tognini, R Toner, D Torretta, I Trostin, G Tzanakos, J Urheim, P Vahle, K Vaziri, E Villegas, B Viren, G Vogel, RC Webber, A Weber, RC Webb, A Wehmann, C White, L Whitehead, LH Whitehead, SG Wojcicki, ML Wong-Squires, T Yang, FX Yumiceva, V Zarucheisky, R Zwaska
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Report on the 1st QBO Modelling and Reanalyses Workshop

(2015) 45

Authors:

J Anstey, K Hamilton, SM Osprey, N Butchart, LJ Gray

Modeling the Stratosphere's "Heartbeat"

Eos American Geophysical Union (AGU) 96 (2015)

Authors:

Kevin Hamilton, Scott Osprey, Neal Butchart
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