Abstract: Monin-Obukhov scaling and convective scaling both apply over a range of heights z given approximately by ?L<z<0.1zi where L is the Monin-Obukhov length and zi the height of the lowest inversion. This region is defined here ...

Abstract: The kinetic energy of the atmosphere is not spread uniformly over all wavelengths but has certain preferred scales, with gaps in between. Typically atmospheric structures are either fully three dimensional with horizontal ...

Abstract: Wind and temperature Profiles from three towers were examined under conditions of fairly homogeneous fetch. With numerically small Richardson numbers, no significant deviations from logarithmic profiles were detected up ...

Abstract: From the end of October 1973 to the beginning of January 1974, Continental Airlines operated one of its Boeing 747 aircraft with special instrumentation for the study of clear-air turbulence (CAT). The observations were ...

Abstract: The flow at 500 mb. is compared with that at 100 mb. With the exception of the polar vortex, the patterns at the two levels tend to show a distinct similarity, with the major exception that small-scale features at 500 mb. ...

Abstract: Multiple linear regression is used to relate monthly means and year-to-year changes of the monthly mean planetary albedo and infrared flux leaving the atmosphere, as measured by NOAA satellites, to certain meteorological ...

Abstract: A surface layer experiment is described which includes measurements of turbulent velocities at 2 m above the surface with an army of newly developed drag anemometers. The experiment site is located in central Pennsylvania ...

Abstract: Two separate case studies of clear air turbulence are presented, one in the stratosphere over the Rocky Mountains, the other in the upper troposphere over the midwestern plains. The mechanism in both situations appears to ...