Abstract: To the extent that the stratosphere wind field is close to geostrophic, the thermal wind is a good approximation to the vertical wind shear (vertical variation of the horizontal wind). And since the thermal wind is ...

Abstract: An efficient longwave scheme for climate models originally suggested by Sasamori is modified to correctly simulate the water vapor-temperature feedback mechanism. It is found that the modified scheme with a fixed cloud-top ...

Abstract: A parameterization of quasi-geostrophic eddy transport that takes into account the time variation of the eddy transfer coefficients according to Green's theory is studied. A relation proposed by Green connects the vertical ...