Abstract: Vertically stratified stratospheric tracers such as methane and nitrous oxide tend to have constant mixing ratio surfaces that slope downward toward the poles in the meridional plane. The equilibrium tracer slope results ...

Abstract: The transient motion resulting when a rotating cylinder containing a stably stratified fluid system has its rotation rate impulsively changed is examined theoretically and in the laboratory for both a continuously stratified ...

Abstract: A semi-spectral numerical model is used to study the influence of a longitudinally varying gravity wave source on the general circulation of the winter mesosphere. The gravity wave source consists of stationary (topographic) ...

Abstract: The equatorial stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) in zonal wind and temperature is observed to be symmetric about the equator. The QBO in column ozone, although it is believed to be caused primarily by vertical ...

Abstract: The response of an unbounded ocean to circularly symmetric time varying wind stresses is analyzed. A continuously stratified ocean is first considered. The model includes bottom friction, but the Coriolis parameter is a ...

Abstract: A model for shallow cumulus convection is formulated in which the vertical momentum equation and horizontal divergence equation are combined to produce a diagnostic equation for the perturbation pressure field. These ...

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Abstract: A slight modification of the parameterization suggested by Lindzen (1981) for the zonal drag and eddy diffusion effects generated by breaking internal gravity waves in the mesosphere is tested using a severely truncated ...

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Abstract: The zonal mean solstice circulation of the global middle atmosphere is simulated using a semi-spectral numerical model. Radiative heating and cooling is computed by the algorithm of Wehrbein and Leovy. Mechanical dissipation ...