Abstract: Emanuel and Bister discussed results of numerical experiments in which the radiative cooling rate of the atmosphere was arbitrarily specified. They suggested that the scaling theory for atmospheric convection proposed by ...

Abstract: Pauluis et al. argue that frictional dissipation of energy around falling hydrometeors is an important entropy source in the tropical atmosphere. Their calculations suggest that the frictional dissipation around hydrometeors ...

Abstract: On many planets there is a continuous heat supply to the surface and a continuous emission of infrared radiation to space by the atmosphere. Since the heat source is located at higher pressure than the heat sink, the system ...

Abstract: It is shown that the simple thermodynamic theory for dust devils, proposed by Rennó et al., also applies to waterspouts. The theory is based on the thermodynamics of heat engines and predicts the central pressure and the ...

Abstract: Measurements were made to determine the level of origin of air parcels participating in natural convection. Lagrangian measurements of conservative variables are ideal for this purpose. A simple remotely piloted vehicle ...

Abstract: A recent article by J. I. Yano has indicated that there is an inconsistency in the original formulation of the quasi-equilibrium theory of Arakawa and Schubert. He argues that this inconsistency results from a contradiction ...

Abstract: Intraseasonal fluctuations associated with the Mexican monsoon system are examined for the semiarid Sonoran Desert region. Daily rain gauge accumulations, radiosonde reports, satellite imagery, and global analyses are all ...

Abstract: his article describes a Prandtl tube system developed at the University of Michigan to measure the static pressure, the total (or stagnation) pressure, and the velocity in flows whose direction and intensity change rapidly. ...

Abstract: A simple theory for convective circulations induced by surface heterogeneities is proposed. The theory is based on the thermodynamics of heat engines and provides a simple physical explanation for the general characteristics ...