Abstract: Meteorological support for the record-breaking, nine-day, nonstop, non-refueled flight around the world by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager in the Voyager aircraft 14?23 December 1986 is described. The strict meteorological ...

Abstract: The impact of increasing automation of meteorological guidance on manual preparation of operational weather forecasts is discussed. There appears to be some evidence that forecasters are abdicating their meteorological ...

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Abstract: The physical reason for quasi-geostrophic vertical motion is reviewed. Various techniques for estimating synoptic-scale vertical motion are examined, and their utility (or lack thereof) is illustrated by a case study. The ...