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September 2013
Project started.
A paper on the gravity wave drag produced by trapped lee waves propagating at a temperature inversion and its correlation with rotor onset was published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
October 2013
PhD student Alice Baker started working on wind profile effects on gravity wave drag and its parametrization.
April 2014
PhD student Vittoria Guarino started working on mountain wave breaking in directional shear flow and CAT generation (funded by this project).
April-May 2014
Results on trapped lee waves were presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, in Vienna.
July 2014
An invited review paper on the physics of orographic gravity wave drag was published in the open-access journal Frontiers - Atmospheric Science.
September-October 2014
An invited paper on the momentum fluxes associated with hydrostatic mountain waves generated by elliptical mountains was published in the Enok Palm memorial volume of the European Journal of Mechanics B - Fluids.
December 2014
Alice Baker left the project.
April 2015
Participation of Miguel Teixeira in the "Momentum Budget and its Role in Weather and Climate Workshop", in Eynsham hall, Oxfordshire.
July 2015
A paper on trapped lee waves and the associated drag force in flows with unidirectional of directional shear was published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
August-September 2015
Results on trapped lee wave rotors, wave momentum flux and trapped lee wave drag were presented at the 33rd International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, in Innsbruck.
October 2015
PhD student Holly Turner started working on wind profile effects on gravity wave drag and its parametrization, pursuing the work of Alice Baker.
March 2016
Visit by the project's consultant, Dr Simon Vosper.
April 2016
Results on clear-air turbulence generation by mountain wave breaking were presented by Vittoria Guarino at European Geophysical Union General Assembly, in Vienna.
September 2016
An Editorial paper was written to introduce the contributions contained in the special issue of Frontiers in Earth Science on the Research Topic "The Atmosphere over Mountainous Regions".
Participation of Miguel Teixeira and Holly Turner in the workshop "Drag processes and their links to large-scale circulation", ECMWF, Reading.
October 2016
Vittoria Guarino's results on turbulence generation by mountain wave breaking in directional wind shear were published in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
November 2016
Publication (as an eBook) of the special issue of Frontiers in Earth Science on the Research Topic "The Atmosphere over Mountainous Regions".
January 2017
The work on diagnosing the onset of lee wave rotors using input parameters of the large scale flow was published as an invited paper in a special issue of the open-access journal Atmosphere, on "Atmospheric Gravity Waves", organized by Prof. Vanda Grubisic.
Visit by the project's consultant, Dr Simon Vosper.
April 2017
Results on rotor onset prediction and drag by waves propagating at a density interface were presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, in Vienna.
June 2017
Comparisons of the drag from linear theory with that given by laboratory measurements performed by Alexandre Paci (Meteo-France and CNRS) resulted in a paper published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
Results on rotor onset prediction, drag by waves propagating at a density interface and tubulence generation by mountain wave breaking were presented at the 34th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, in Reykjavik.
August 2017
Project formally ended.
October 2017
The effect of unstable stratification in the boundary layer on flow speed-up over topography was evaluated in a paper published in Boundary Layer Meteorology.
Vittoria Guarino evaluated the impact of nonhydrostatic effects on mountain wave breaking in flows with directional wind shear, in a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Vittoria Guarino concluded her PhD (funded by this project until August 2017).
A paper was published about the drag exerted by trapped lee waves generated in two-layer atmospheres on flow over an axisymmetric mountain.