Gravity Wave Excitation from Ocean Waves and Tsunamis, and Propagation Via Ray Tracing into the Thermosphere

In this poster, we discuss new solutions which describe the excitation of acoustic gravity waves from a moving surface ocean wave. We then describe a new method by which to ray trace the gravity waves into the thermosphere. We show that the ray traced-solutions equal theexact Fourier-Laplace solutions in the limit that the winds are zero,the temperature is constant, and thermospheric dissipation is turned off. We then apply these solutions to the gravity waves excited by a moving ocean wave using realisitic wind, temperature and thermospheric dissipation. Finally, we apply these results to a recently-observedtsunami.