Abstract: A generalized transport equation for a variety of meteorological coordinate systems is derived. Through its application, the commonality of modes of convective and nonconvective flux of mass, momentum and energy is identified ...

Abstract: Motivated by the circumstantial evidence of the pervasive nature of the ?general coldness? of climate model simulations, a theoretical analysis is made of the model response expected from the presence of both physical and ...

Abstract: The storm's available potential energy and its rate of change are derived for a vertically walled volume encircling the storm and extending from the surface to the top of the atmosphere. The rate of change includes explicit ...

Abstract: Professor Yale Mintz's contributions in combining theory, diagnostic analysis, and modeling in scientific studies across a broad range of interests over more than four decades are reviewed. His studies include diagnostic ...

Abstract: The energetics of hurricane Hilda (1964) are studied through the theory of available potential energy applied to a limited fixed region surrounding the storm. The generation of available potential energy is shown to be ...

Abstract: Vertical atmospheric cross sections of upward, downward, and net infrared irradiance, infrared cooling, temperature, potential temperature, and water vapor through a jet stream have been constructed for Jan. 7 and 9, 1961, ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional global distributions of atmospheric heating are estimated for January and July of the 3-year period 1986?88 from the ECMWF/TOGA assimilated datasets. Emphasis is placed on the interseasonal and interannual ...

Abstract: ?Least-squares? approximating polynomials are used to suppress bias and random errors in estimating vertical profiles of winds, divergence, and vertical motion. A quadratic polynomial is used to filter each wind profile. ...

Abstract: In the linear theory of the isentropic zonally averaged circulation (Gallimore and Johnson, 1981), stable meridional circulations within the circumpolar vortex are forced by larger scale diabatic beating and angular momentum ...

Abstract: For the axisymmetric general circulation, Eliassen (1951) showed that stable meridional circulations are controlled by large-scale diabatic heating and friction torque. Because the real atmosphere is longitudinally disturbed, ...