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Unexpected Detection Reveals Gravity Waves in Our Atmosphere's 'Nightglow' - C C - Nov 21, 2015
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-unexpected-detection-reveals-gravity-waves-in-the-atmospheres-nightglow
EXCERPT: Quite by accident, a group of physicists based at Colorado State University has detected gravity waves rippling across Earth's highest atmospheric layers. The find [...] is the first time that the phenomenon has been observed so far above the planet's surface on a global scale and with a high amount of spatial detail. The newfound detection ability may mean big things for weather and climate forecasting. [...] The "global climatology" of gravity waves has been well-documented for the middle atmospheric layers of Earth, but the upper atmosphere has been more elusive. This enforces a limitation on complete models of global atmospheric circulation and, thus, on global climate models....