Abstract: Mechanisms possibly connecting solar activity to meteorology of the lower atmosphere are reviewed. Besides direct variations of solar visible emission, solar-related fluctuations in some aspect of cloudiness could be ...

Abstract: A zero-dimensional climate model is considered with three thermal reservoirs, i.e., the atmosphere, the surface mixed layer and the intermediate water of the ocean. Realistic values are adopted for the rates of heat transfer ...

Abstract: Small amplitude planetary waves are superimposed on a mean zonal flow with arbitrary horizontal and vertical shears. An expression is derived for the change of the zonal wind and temperature field forced by statistically ...

Abstract: The problem of small-amplitude, steady motions and temperature perturbations in a stratified, ideal gas atmosphere with viscosity and heat conduction is investigated. Horizontally varying sources of heat, mass and momentum ...

Abstract: A system of equations, including Newtonian cooling and valid away from the equator, is derived for atmospheric zonal winds and the associated zonal temperature and meridional circulation fields. A time scaling is introduced ...

Abstract: The role of horizontal wind shears in the vertical propagation of planetary Rossby waves is investigated using an adiabatic linear model. We discuss wave guides formed by regions of weak westerly wind. If the wave guide ...

Abstract: The study assumes adiabatic, inviscid, hydrostatic and quasi-geostrophic motions on a mid-latitude ?-plane. The domain is assumed vertically unbounded. The stability of a hyperbolic-tangent shear flow to small-amplitude ...

Abstract: An approximate linearized model for the analysis of low frequency transient and stationary planetary scale atmospheric waves is derived. The problem of stationary waves forced at the lower boundary is solved exactly for ...

Abstract: A model is developed for the NLTE infrared radiative transfer in a CO2 atmosphere at low pressure. This model is used to determine the source function for CO2 15 µm vibrational levels and the radiative equilibrium temperature ...

Abstract: An equatorial ?-plane model for the tropospheric zonal circulation is used to examine the consequences of the seasonal and hemispheric variation both of the tropical rain belt as a zonal mean heat source and of the horizontal ...