Journal of Meteorology: Recent submissions

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    • ON THE MAXIMUM INTENSITY OF HURRICANES 

      Miller, Banner I. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      The minimum pressure that can occur within a hurricane is related to the temperature of the sea surface over which it moves. This is done by making certain assumptions and synthesizing an eye sounding, which is used to ...

    • THE DISTRIBUTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE COOLING IN THE LOWER STRATOSPHERE 

      Brooks, Douglas L. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      The distribution of radiational cooling due to carbon dioxide is computed for the stratosphere below 30 km in an effort to provide an insight into the role of radiation in the observed seasonal and latitudinal changes of ...

    • A POWER SPECTRUM OF SURFACE WINDS 

      Bushnell, R. H.; Huss, P. O. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      This paper presents a power spectrum of surface winds, developed as part of a study on flight control design. The spectrum, derived by a simple method of calculation, extends from 10?8 cps to 1 cps. Over much of this band ...

    • COMPUTATION OF INSTANTANEOUS SOURCE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS FROM SMOKE PUFF OBSERVATIONS 

      Wilkins, Eugene M. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      A method is proposed whereby the Sutton-type diffusion coefficients appropriate for the instantaneous source may be estimated from observations of dissipation times for smoke puffs generated by standard gunpowder charges. ...

    • AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS OF ALBEDO WITH A BEAM REFLECTOR 

      Kuhn, P. M.; Suomi, V. E. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      A conventional Eppley Pyrheliometer was converted into a beam reflector by mounting it, upright, in the prime focus of a parabolic mirror. This unit, attached to an aircraft, provides a means of obtaining reflected short-wave ...

    • A CONVERGENT METHOD FOR SOLVING THE BALANCE EQUATION 

      Arnason, Geirmundur (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      The nonlinear balance equation is replaced by an infinite system of linear differential equations. This system has a series of solutions which under certain conditions converge toward the solution of the balance equation. ...

    • SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE U COMPONENT OF WIND VELOCITY AT THREE METERS 

      Ely, Robert P. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      A broad-band spectral analysis has been carried out for 54 ten-minute observations of the u component of wind speed at a height three meters. The observations were made with mean wind speeds ranging from 2 to 9 m per sec ...

    • THE PREDICTION OF MARITIME CYCLONES 

      George, J. J.; Wolff, P. M.; Somervell, W. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      An empirically derived method is presented for objectively predicting the 24-hr movement and change in intensity of maritime cyclones. The technique developed requires only measurement of the 500-mb height and temperature ...

    • ERRORS IN UPPER-LEVEL WIND COMPUTATIONS 

      de Jong, H. M. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      The evaluation of upper-level wind data by means of balloon-tracking methods involves a number of determinative and random errors. These errors depend on the precision in locating the points of the balloon track, which in ...

    • THE EXCHANGE OF ENERGY BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE ATMOSPHERE IN RELATION TO HURRICANE BEHAVIOR 

      Fisher, Edwin L. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      A previous study having suggested a relationship between sea-surface temperatures and hurricane behavior, it was felt that the mechanism producing this effect must be the eddy flux of energy from sea to air in the vicinity ...

    • OBSERVATIONS ON THE APPEARANCE AND GROWTH OF TROPICAL CUMULI 

      Harrington, Edward L. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      Some observations, made while participating in a flight program of cloud physics research in over-water trade-wind cumuli, are offered. Cloud-top growth rates of over-water trade-wind cumuli, computed from time-lapse ...

    • LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS OF THE GROWTH AND COLLECTION EFFICIENCY OF CLOUD DROPLETS 

      Kinzer, Gilbert D.; Cobb, William E. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      Water droplets initially 2 µ in radius were held stationary for observation in an upward streaming cloud and were found to grow by accretion. The rate of increase in the radius of individual droplets was measured from 4 ...

    • SORPTION BY THE EARTH SURFACE AND A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF KATA-HYDROMETEORIC PROCESSES 

      Buettner, Konrad J. K. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      It is proposed to call all processes bringing water of any phase to the surface kata-hydrometeoric processes.Their classification includes, e.g., intercepted precipitation, dew and at least five forms of sorption. ...

    • A LABORATORY STUDY OF CONTRAILS 

      Pilié, Roland J.; Jiusto, James E. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      Contrails were produced for laboratory study by burning aircraft fuels under controlled conditions of ambient temperature and humidity at pressure altitudes between 1000 and 300 mb. Observed critical formation temperatures ...

    • GRAPHICAL PROGNOSIS INCLUDING TERRRAIN EFFECTS 

      Haltiner, George J.; Heese, Theodore S. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      A method for the graphical integration of the vorticity equation is presented, which includes the effects of terrain-induced vertical velocities. The prediction equation is applied to a series of l000-mb charts. The tests ...

    • VORTEX MOTION IN A VISCOUS FLUID 

      Long, Robert R. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      A discussion is given of a three-dimensional vortex in a viscous fluid. A theory is outlined that leads to a reduction of the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations of an incompressible fluid to three ordinary, nonlinear, ...

    • RICHARDSON NUMBER IN A COMPRESSIBLE FLOW PROBLEM, PRELIMINARY NOTE 

      Sifert, Raymond K. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      No Abstract Available.

    • MEAN SOUNDINGS FOR THE WEST INDIES AREA 

      Jordan, C. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      Mean aerological data for the West Indies area have been prepared from ten-year records for three stations. Mean monthly height, temperature and relative humidity data are tabulated for constant pressure surfaces. More ...

    • THE FREQUENCY OF CYCLONES AND ANTICYCLONES IN RELATION TO THE MEAN CIRCULATION 

      Klein, William H. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      Monthly frequencies of occurrence and genesis of migratory cyclones and anticyclones at sea level in the Northern Hemisphere during the period covered by the original Historical Map Series are averaged by 5 deg lat zones. ...

    • OBSERVATIONS OF VERTICAL DIFFUSION RATES IN STABLE ATMOSPHERES 

      Hilst, G. R.; Simpson, C. L. (American Meteorological Society, 1958)
      No Abstract Available.