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The Response of Stationary Planetary Waves to Tropospheric Forcing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A steady-state, linear, quasi-geostrophic model of stationary waves on a sphere is employed to study the lower boundary forcing of airflow over topography and the internal forcing that results from the geographical ...
The Transport of Nitric Oxide by the Mean Circulation and Planetary Waves
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The effects of the zonal mean circulation and planetary-wave winds on the distribution of nitric oxide in the 55?120 km height region is investigated. A time-dependent numerical model is used to investigate the interaction ...
Retrieval of Raindrop Size Distributions Using Two Doppler Wind Profilers: Model Sensitivity Testing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The behavior of precipitation is of great importance in obtaining a better understanding of heat transport estimates and global processes in the atmosphere. This paper discusses improvements in an earlier raindrop size ...
Virtual Heat Flux Measurements from a Boundary-Layer Profiler-RASS Compared to Aircraft Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Measurements of the turbulent virtual heat flux in the convective atmospheric boundary layer made with a 915-MHz boundary-layer wind profiler-radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) are compared to flux measurements from a ...
Comparisons between Satellite-derived Gradient Winds and Radar-derived Winds from the CIRA-86
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite-radiance data (Nimbus 5, 6; ≤80 km) and the MSIS-83 model have been used to prepare global zonal-mean gradient winds (30?120 km) for the new CIRA-1986. Here these are supplemented by planetary-wave morphology ...