Abstract: An analysis based on radiative decay times allows the quantitative calculation of the effects of thermal radiation on acoustic wave propagation in an infinite non-gray atmosphere. Computations for the earth's troposphere, ...

Abstract: Small-scale features in temperature data from the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere satellite experiment are isolated by subtracting profiles of globally mapped temperatures (containing zonal waves 0?6) from inverted ...

Abstract: Zonal-mean gravity wave variance in the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS) temperature data is seen to correlate strongly with the residual term in the LIMS zonal-mean momentum budget throughout much of the ...

Abstract: The signatures of equatorially trapped Kelvin waves in the upper stratosphere are analyzed in Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV) ozone data over the years 1979?86. Comparisons are first made with contemporaneous Limb ...

Abstract: A detailed numerical integration of the equation of radiative transfer over the 62 µ line of atomic oxygen is described. The results show that the cooling rate h in the lower thermosphere is appreciably lower than the value ...

Abstract: The theory and data for calculating the positions, intensifies, and half-widths of the spectral lines of ammonia with frequencies <1400 cm?1 are described. The ground state rotation, ?2, 2?2? ?2, and the rotation-inversion ...

Abstract: One of the limitations to the accurate calculation of radiative heating and cooling rates in the stratosphere and mesosphere has been the lack of accurate data on the atmospheric temperature and composition. Data from the ...

Abstract: A new model has been developed for calculating vertical profiles of longwave irradiance and heating rates. The infrared active bands taken into account include the pure rotational water vapor, the 6.3 µm water vapor, the ...

Abstract: The calculation of limb radiance as a function of tangent height is shown to require the vertical distribution of temperature and the pressure at one level. Conversely, given the limb radiance curve and the pressure ...

Abstract: Observational evidence is presented for planetary scale (zonal wave number 1?2) mixed Rossby?gravity (MRG) waves in the equatorial upper stratosphere (35?50 km). These waves are detected in Limb Infrared Monitor of the ...