Abstract: The present paper deals with the analysis of the time-average relative humidity fields in the atmosphere. Twice-daily estimates of relative humidity are used. After some theoretical considerations on the relations between ...

Abstract: Maps of the streamfunction field for the vertically integrated flux of water vapor over the Northern Hemisphere are presented for each of six annual periods. This approach reveals the existence of a broad-scale cellular ...

Abstract: The variability of annually averaged water vapor and water vapor transport fields over the Northern Hemisphere during the fifteen year period 1958?1973 is studied by means of empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. ...

Abstract: Annual mean holds of the zonal and meridional components of the vertically integrated water vapor flux in the atmosphere have been computed objectively from six years of Northern Hemispheric upper air data. Emphasis is ...

Abstract: A number of Northern Hemisphere circulation fields and statistics are derived for the months of January and June 1979 from level III-b analyses produced by GFDL using a 4-dimensional data assimilation scheme which incorporates ...

Abstract: Interannual fluctuations of observed winter seasonal mean 850 mb temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere during 1958?73 are documented and compared with midtropospheric height variations. Interannual temperature variance ...