Overview of the content

Through this lesson, students will understand basic gravity waves and the process used by the engineering teams to detect them. You can also have the opportunity to learn about how the atmospheric science teams are studying gravity waves.

Learning objectives

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Video content

gravity waves

Gravity Waves -- Video by Mary Catlett, Sarah Gordon, Nick Stegmeier, Mystique Fox - Wyoming Space Grant Consortium and South Dakota Space Grant Consortium [YouTube video, 35:10. Closed captioned, transcript available.]

Readings / articles

View the conference poster called Detecting Gravity Saves in the Stratosphere using High Altitude Balloon GPS Data 

Gravity Wave Methodology With Explanations and Derivations by Bryce Kim

 


Extended learning

You may be interested in learning more about gravity waves from the Atmospheric Science perspective.

See Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves

and

Gravity Wave Observations

 

 

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