Abstract: The two-layer model is used to study how horizontal shear in a baroclinic zonal flow affects the structure of growing baroclinic waves. The solution is simplified by assuming that the radius of deformation is small compared ...

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Abstract: Several experiments are described in which the sub-grid-scale vertical eddy viscosity in the GISS global general circulation model was varied. The results show that large viscosities suppress large-scale eddies in middle ...

Abstract: An experiment has been designed to test the predictions of nongeostrophic baroclinic stability theory. The apparatus is similar to the conventional rotating annulus experiments, except that the vertical temperature difference ...

Abstract: The GISS global general circulation model has been used to simulate July conditions, in a manner analogous to the previously described January simulation. Sea surface temperatures, ice cover, snow line and soil moisture ...

Abstract: Direct temperature measurements are reported for two rotating annulus experiments. One shows the flow pattern interpreted by Stone et al. as a manifestation of symmetric baroclinic (inertial) instability, and the other ...

Abstract: A model description and numerical results are presented for a global atmospheric circulation model developed at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The model version described is a 9-level primitive-equation ...

Abstract: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model is used to make probabilistic projections of climate change from 1861 to 2100. Since the model?s first projections were published in 2003, ...