Abstract: Some of the contributions of Victor Paul Starr (1909?76) as a scholar and teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are described. His work on the atmospheric branch of the earth's angular momentum cycle is ...

Abstract: Several estimates of the rate at which the mean and eddy forms of both kinetic energy and available potential energy are generated, converted, and dissipated in the atmosphere are compared in tabular form. From these tables ...

Abstract: Numerical output from a GFDL global climate model was used to determine whether the present distribution of rawinsonde stations is adequate to deduce the atmospheric structure and its variability in space and time over the ...

Abstract: The annual cycles in the atmospheric storage and in the meridional transport of energy are discussed. The calculations are based on a five-year sample from more than 500 radiosonde stations mainly located in the Northern ...

Abstract: New time series of the hemispheric and global mean temperature anomalies in the troposphere and lower stratosphere are presented for the period May 1958 through December 1989. The statistics are based on objective monthly ...

Abstract: A project to objectively analyze a large quantity of oceanographic data for the world ocean is described. Preliminary results are encouraging within the limits of data available. Results are being used in a variety of ways ...

Abstract: For six stations in the northeastern United States, the spectrum of horizontal wind speed was analyzed using 10 yr of 1-min averaged, hourly surface reports. The fast Fourier transform technique was employed to estimate ...

Abstract: Recent measurements of the earth's radiation budget from satellites, together with extensive atmospheric energy transport summaries based on rawinsonde data, allow a new estimate of the required poleward energy transport ...

Abstract: Based on the observed interannual variations of water vapor and temperature over the past 26 years the authors have examined the relationship between the variations of water vapor and temperature in the tropical troposphere. ...

Abstract: Based on five years of satellite brightness data the year-to-year variations in convective activity are investigated over the GATE area. The monthly-mean brightness data suggest that in the B-scale region, centered at 8.5N, ...