Abstract: Satellite microwave brightness temperature (radiance) measurements represent weighted mean temperatures in a certain atmospheric layer. The high density of measurements along a polar-orbiting satellite track allows estimates ...

Abstract: Observational data from the lower stratosphere are examined to determine to what extent an upper limit can be placed on the water-vapor content of that region of the atmosphere, a quantity which is presently in controversy ...

Abstract: Observational data and theoretical calculations are presented which suggest a possible sink for stratospheric water vapor in the winter antarctic.

Abstract: A method is proposed whereby it should be possible to obtain valuable information about the amount of water vapor in the lower stratosphere from high-latitude observing locations in winter. Laser-radar scattering returns ...

Abstract: Daily global grids of satellite radiance data over a 24-month period (1973?74) are decomposed into spherical harmonic functions. It is shown that a certain function of the expansion coefficients can be interpreted as the ...

Abstract: It has been widely accepted that electromagnetic noise at low radio frequencies from thunderstorms is mainly vertically polarized. This paper re-examines the existing 500 kHz data of Kohl, taking into account the electrical ...

Abstract: The synoptic and physical characteristics of Oklahoma tornadoes are studied for the 16-year period 1959?74. When the Oklahoma results are compared with tornadoes in Iowa (Notis and Stanford, 1973), grouping tornadoes into ...

Abstract: Results are presented from a systematic study of 386 Iowa tornadoes reported over a 13-year period (1959?71). The tornado occurrences are studied as a function of time of day, date, path length, width, 500-mb flow, and ...

Abstract: The space-time Fourier analysis technique proposed by Salby for asynoptic satellite data has been applied to brightness temperatures derived from Stratospheric Sounding Unit radiances from three months during the Southern ...

Abstract: Eastward moving, baroclinically forced, medium-scale waves are frequently observed to dominate the Southern Hemisphere summer circulation. In addition, strong quasi-stationary medium-scale waves were also observed during ...