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On the Semiannual Variation of Geomagnetic Activity and its Relation to the Solar Corpuscular Radiation
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)The semiannual variation of geomagnetic activity has been in the past tentatively explained by two different theories, the so-called ?equinoctial hypothesis? and the ?axial hypothesis.? The latter relates the effect to the ... -
Diurnal Variation of Wind, Pressure, and Temperature in the Troposphere and Stratosphere over the Azores
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)The diurnal and semidiurnal variations of wind, pressure, and temperature at Lajes Field, Terceira, Azores, were computed for each month of the year for 30 levels between the surface and 10 mb. The semidiurnal variations ... -
DROP COLLISIONS UNDER CONDITIONS OF FREE FALL
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)Data on collisions between drops under conditions of free fall are presented. The results were obtained from an examination of 278 photographic pairs obtained by promoting collisions in the field of view of a two camera ... -
A Simplified Derivation of the Diabatic Wind Profile
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)An expression for the diabatic wind profile is derived using dimensional analysis and the assumption that the turbulent exchange coefficient for momentum can be partitioned into two parts, one associated with forced ... -
Wilson Cloud Chamber Effect under Natural Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)No abstract available. -
On the Stability of Internal Baroclinic Jets in a Rotating Atmosphere
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)We consider the quasi-geostrophic instability of a circumpolar vortex in which there is available kinetic energy of lateral shear as well as available potential energy due to meridional temperature gradients. Stability ... -
Scattering and Extinction Coefficients for Small Spherical Aerosol
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Spectral Statistics of the Wind at 500 mb
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The Vertical Variation of Atmospheric Eddy Energy Dissipation
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QUASI-STATIONARY WAVES OBSERVED IN AEROSOL DIFFUSION TRIALS CONDUCTED IN A COASTAL AREA
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)In a series of diffusion trials conducted by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in 1955 and 1956, there were strong departures from the model, originally proposed by Sutton, in which the logarithm of the crosswind integrated ... -
ON THE NON-EXISTENCE OF CRITICAL WAVELENGTHS IN A CONTINUOUS BAROCLINIC STABILITY PROBLEM
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)The baroclinic stability problem relating to a Couette west-wind profile over a flat topography and extending to infinite height on the rotating earth is treated in the ?-plane formulation, as presented by Charney and Kuo. ... -
COMMENTS ON THE BREAKUP OF RAINDROPS
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THE OH NIGHTGLOW EMISSION
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)The several determinations of the relative vibrational transition probabilities for the OH vibration-rotation bands are examined. The discrepancies in the results may be attributed to their strong dependence on the observed ... -
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF RADIATION MEASUREMENTS FROM THE TIROS III METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)Three simple and typical cases of radiation fluxes measured by the TIROS III meteorological satellite are presented and discussed. These cases deal with emitted earth radiation received in three infrared channels and ... -
ANALYSIS OF LOW-LEVEL CONSTANT VOLUME BALLOON (TETROON) FLIGHTS FROM WALLOPS ISLAND
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)During January of 1960, eight tetroons (constant volume, super-pressured balloons were released from Wallops Island for flight at approximately 3000 ft. The tetroons were tracked by the very accurate AN/FPS-16 radar, thus ... -
SIMPLIFIED DYNAMIC EQUATIONS APPLIED TO THE ROTATING-BASIN EXPERIMENTS
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)By means of truncated Fourier-Bessel series, a two-layer geostrophic ?numerical-prediction? model with heating and friction is reduced to a set of eight ordinary nonlinear differential equations in eight dependent variables. ... -
The Circulation of the Tropical Stratosphere in the Years 1954–1960
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)The circulation is described in terms of three components: the long-term mean, the annual cycle and a newly-discovered 26-month cycle, referred to as the equatorial stratosphere wind oscillation. Mean winds are everywhere ... -
THE HARMONIC PERSISTENCE CORRELATION AND GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)A persistence correlation is defined with which it is possible to determine the separate contributions of each of the harmonics to the total persistence of the pressure distribution around a circle of latitude. Time-series ... -
SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF WAKE FORMATION BENEATH AN INVERSION
(American Meteorological Society, 1962)TIROS I photographs reveal striking wake patterns in low clouds to the lee of small islands in the eastern Pacific. These patterns are indicative of standing long gravity waves and provide a means of estimating the wind ...