Abstract: The baroclinic instability of a meridional current in a north?south channel is investigated in a two-layer model for the case when the current has no horizontal shear. The vertical shear of the current provides a potential ...

Abstract: A new 8-year global cloud climatology has been produced by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) that provides information every 3 h at 280-km spatial resolution covering the period from July 1983 ...

Abstract: Fractional vegetation cover (σ?) is needed in the modeling of the land?atmosphere exchanges of momentum, energy, water, and trace gases. From global 1-km, 10-day composite Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer normalized ...