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THE RECURVATURE OF TROPICAL STORMS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The relations between major alterations of the paths of tropical storms and the upper windfield, especially changes in the height of the base of the polar westerlies, are examined in detail. If the base lowers greatly west ...
A QUANTITATIVE METHOD FOR THE PREDICTION OF RAINFALL PATTERNS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Under certain assumptions, the vertical motion in the low and middle troposphere is directed upward in regions where the relative vorticity decreases downstream along the streamlines at 300 millibars, and inverse. Computations ...
UNREST IN THE UPPER STRATOSPHERE OVER THE CARIBBEAN SEA DURING JANUARY 1960
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Wind observations were taken at a network of stations around the Caribbean from 100,000 to 120,000 ft altitude in January 1960. After an initial period of strong but variable easterly winds, a large disturbance emanated ...
EXPLORATION OF THE JET STREAM BY AIRCRAFT DURING THE 1952–1953 WINTER
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In an endeavor to determine the horizontal wind structure of jet streams, a series of aircraft traverses at 30,000 feet pressure-altitude was undertaken during the winter of 1952?1953. This article outlines the results of ...
ON THE MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION AND RELEASE OF KINETIC ENERGY IN THE TROPICS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The mean meridional circulation is computed for the northern hemisphere winter. The equatorward current in the low troposphere has a strength of l?3 mps near 10 to 15 deg lat, and the return current, centered near 200 mb, ...
A STUDY OF HIGH-TROPOSPHERIC LAPSE RATES WITH APPLICATION TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF 300-MILLIBAR CHARTS
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The layer of air between 700 mb and 300 mb is analyzed with the object of determining the lapse-rate patterns associated with the most important types of flow configuration in the upper westerlies. At first the average ...