Abstract: his study calculates the adjustment to radiative forcing in a simple model of a mixed layer ocean coupled to the overlying atmosphere. One application of the model is to calculate how dust aerosols perturb the temperature ...

Abstract: The ability of subtropical stratus low cloud cover to moderate or amplify the tropical response to climate forcing such as increased CO2 is considered. Cloud radiative forcing over the subtropics is parameterized using an ...

Abstract: The effect of radiative forcing by soil dust aerosols upon climate is calculated. Two atmospheric GCM (AGCM) simulations are compared, one containing a prescribed seasonally varying concentration of dust aerosols, and the ...

Abstract: The effect of wind-evaporative feedbacks upon ENSO, and the coupling of Pacific and Indian Ocean variability, is considered based upon a 110-yr simulation from a coupled ocean and atmosphere general circulation model. ...

Abstract: The effect of soil dust aerosols upon the tropical climate is estimated by forcing a simple model of a tropical direct circulation. The model consists of a region vertically mixed by deep convection and a nonconvecting ...

Abstract: African waves are believed to originate as shear instabilities, although in certain cases rainfall is organized so that latent heating contributes to wave growth. What determines whether the shear instability can organize ...

Abstract: Simulations of natural variability by two GCMs are examined. One GCM is a sector model, allowing relatively rapid integration without simplification of the model physics, which would potentially exclude mechanisms of ...

Abstract: Spatial correlations based on monthly rainfall totals from northwest Georgia for the period 1949?77 are studied. This work, a part of the Meteorological Effects of Thermal Energy Releases (METER) Program, determines natural ...