Abstract: Pilot balloon wind profiles obtained by the first and second Byrd Antarctic Expeditions are analyzed to show that the mean observed wind shear between the surface and 1,000 m. can be resolved into a frictional component ...

Abstract: Seasonally persistent westerly winds at the surface in the vicinity of the equator from 40E to 170E longitude are shown to be the generally predictable result of a geostrophically appropriate pressure gradient at latitudes ...

Abstract: Results of a study on back-door cold fronts for the months April through October of 1964?71 are presented. Results include information on frequency, associated air-mass duration, precipitation, temperature and dew-point ...