Abstract: A theory of convective clouds is presented, the fundamental hypothesis being that the ascending current in a cloud entrains air from its surroundings. A method is developed for computing the amount of entrainment from a ...

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Abstract: Vertical profiles of current, temperature and salinity were taken in the upper ocean from 3°S to 2°N along 55°30?E in the Indian Ocean during February?June in 1975 and 1976. During both years a strong O(80 cm s?1) equatorial ...

Abstract: The combined effects of buoyancy forcing and wind in a gyre-scale steady ocean circulation are modeled using discrete layers with an interfacial flux, not necessarily vertical. The equations for vorticity conservation of ...

Abstract: The time and type of onset of the southwest monsoon over the Arabian Sea is studied using ship reports of surface wind tabulated by 1° squares daily along two densely occupied shipping lanes. It is found that several types ...

Abstract: The authors describe a self-sustaining baroclinic inertial oscillation whose energy source rests in a uniform horizontal temperature gradient. This energy is released through the agency of a stratification-dependent mixing ...

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Abstract: Data from four cruises to the ??-triangle? centered at 27°N, 32°30?W were smoothed by fitting second-degree polynomials at each of about 30 different density surfaces. The density intervals were ?σp=0.3?, corresponding to ...

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