Abstract: Surface winds over the oceans are an essential component in the computation of wind stress and energy exchanges between the atmosphere and ocean. One technique to determine winds over large, uninstrumented oceanic regions ...

Abstract: Strong convection in the tropical Pacific is found to be enhanced when low-level winds are westerly and poleward directed. This means that winds which blow opposite to the normal easterly, equatorward trade-wind flow are ...

Abstract: Temperature and moisture data from the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) archives are examined for applicability to studies of the tropical atmosphere on time scales ranging from intraseasonal to interannual. ...

Abstract: A coupled, convective-radiative, boundary-layer model of marine stratocumulus clouds is presented. The model, which is a slight generalization of the cloud-topped, mixed-layer model of Lilly (1968), has as dependent variables ...

Abstract: Solutions of the horizontally inhomogeneous version of the coupled, convective-radiative, cloud-topped mixed-layer model described in Part I of this study are presented. Both numerical and approximate analytical methods ...