Abstract: Two sets of independent, upper air wind statistical data for the Northern Hemisphere (covering the periods 1950?54 and 1958?62) have been used to make a diagnostic study of some dynamic effects of the transient fluctuations ...

Abstract: The vertically integrated atmospheric vorticity budget over the oceans offers, in principle, a possibility of determining the surface stress curl from upper wind data without the need to specify a relationship between the ...

Abstract: The global distribution of the forcing of the time-mean flow due to large-scale, horizontal Reynolds stresses (u? u?, v? v?, u? v?) is determined from upper wind statistics for the period 1968?73. The role of this forcing ...