Abstract: The statistical equilibration of baroclinic waves in a two-level quasigeostrophic model subject to forcing and dissipation is studied. The model employed may be formulated in either spherical or Cartesian geometry and is ...

Abstract: ecent work using both simplified and comprehensive GCMs has shown that poleward moisture transport across midlatitudes follows Clausius?Clapeyron scaling at temperatures close to modern, but that it reaches a maximum at ...

Abstract: his paper examines the trajectories followed by intense intrusions of moist air into the Arctic polar region during autumn and winter and their impact on local temperature and sea ice concentration. It is found that the ...

Abstract: AbstractEquatorial superrotation is commonly observed in simulations of Earth and planetary climates, but it is almost without exception found to occur only at upper levels, with zero or easterly winds at the surface. ...

Abstract: his paper examines the wintertime northward moisture flux at 70°N from 1981?2005 in 31 of the CMIP5 models compared with the ERA-Interim reanalysis product. The models? total zonally integrated northward moisture flux is ...

Abstract: AbstractThe salient features and drivers of wintertime warm and cold spells in the high Arctic are investigated. The analysis is based on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts interim reanalysis dataset. ...

Abstract: urrent estimates of the height of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) range from around 3000 to 4500 m. Modeling studies of the LGM, using low-end estimates of the LIS height, show a relatively ...

Abstract: AbstractThe authors study the condensational growth of cloud droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence by means of a large-eddy simulation (LES) approach. The authors investigate the role of a mean updraft velocity and ...