Abstract: A model is developed to find the low-latitude upper-tropospheric atmospheric circulation which would exist in the absence of transient eddies. The forcing in the model is zonally asymmetric to take into account the effect ...

Abstract: A linear stationary wave model is used to diagnose the causes of stationary waves in integrations of a general circulation model (GCM) and to indicate the sources of differences between the stationary waves of separate ...

Abstract: n analysis of Rossby wave dynamics in two and three dimensions is carried from the point of view of a reference frame propagating with the zonal phase speed of the wave. Since trajectories and streamlines coincide in this ...

Abstract: The maximum eddy energies reached by baroclinically unstable disturbances in some simplified numerical models (Gall, 1976b; Simmons and Hoskins, 1978) are compared to a scale-dependent measure of the energy available to ...

Abstract: A steady linearized version of a general circulation model (GCM) is a potentially useful tool for diagnosis and understanding of the time-mean solutions of the GCM. A method is developed for direct solution of the linearized ...

Abstract: The roles of eddy and zonal mean processes in producing the earth's annual-mean zonally-averaged tropospheric wind and temperature fields are investigated using a numerical zonally-averaged atmospheric model. First a ...

Abstract: A simplified linearized two-level zonally averaged atmospheric model and the calculus of variations are used to address the following problems: Assuming fixed thermal forcing except for the longwave, radiative response to ...

Abstract: A simple example problem is constructed for which the continuous primitive equations are shown to have a solution. The model is then discretized in the vertical in a manner equivalent to that used in the NMC global spectral ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments are performed to isolate the cause of differences between the simulations of SST in the low-latitude Pacific of two coupled atmosphere?ocean general circulation models, the Center for Ocean?Land?Atmosphere ...

Abstract: The linearized model presented in Part I of this study (Schneider and Lindzen, 1977) is extended to include the nonlinear advections of angular momentum by the meridional circulation. A crude cumulus heating parameterization ...