Abstract: The heat island phenomenon is surveyed. Existing theories are criticized as being excessively qualitative. A general purpose, numerical energy budget model is described and applied to the urban atmosphere. Calculations for ...

Abstract: The transport patterns of fine sulfur aerosols in the western United States are shown. The large-scale resultant horizontal flux was computed in terms of that contributed by the mean flux versus that contributed by a ...

Abstract: Temporal principal components analysis was applied separately to monthly long-term wind, temperature, and precipitation data for Southern California. Physical explanations of the significant eigenvectors are presented. ...