Abstract: Recent remote sensing observations show that the hurricane boundary layer flow, although energetic, is not a region of homogeneous turbulence. In fact, the observations convincingly demonstrate that a large fraction of the ...

Abstract: Observations show that, for a given geostrophic forcing, baroclinity acting on the planetary boundary layer produces a nearly sinusoidal modification of the near-surface wind. Compared to barotropic conditions the speed ...

Abstract: Oceanic surface pressure fields are derived from the NASA Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) surface wind vector measurements using a two-layer similarity planetary boundary layer model in the midlatitudes and a mixed layer ...

Abstract: method for capturing the different dynamical components of the Madden?Julian oscillation (MJO) is presented. The tropical wind field is partitioned into three components using free-space Green?s functions: 1) a nondivergent ...

Abstract: A method is presented for computing global surface pressure fields from satellite scatterometer winds. Pressure gradients are estimated using a two-layer similarity planetary boundary layer model in the midlatitudes and a ...

Abstract: The atmospheric boundary layer is home to a number of horizontally elongated quasi-two-dimensionalphenomena including cloud streets, roll vortices, thermal waves, and surface layer streaks. These phenomena, their dynamics, ...

Abstract: Recent observational data (turbulence variables by sonic anemometers and three-dimensional flow pattern by Doppler lidar), obtained during the Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study field campaign in October 1999 ...