The phenomenon called the ``sub-Sun'' is the specular reflection of sunlight by horizontally oriented plates of ice. Although well-known in meteorological optics, the hydrodynamics of the orientation…
JKJ. I. Katz
Atmospheric-Oceanic Sciences papers
Changes in the strength of the thermohaline overturning circulation are associated, by geostrophy, with changes in the east-west pressure difference across an ocean basin. The tropical-polar density…
RGRichard J. Greatbatch, K. Andrew PetersonIt is shown that small, local disturbances of entropy in the atmosphere may give rise to "sound" waves propagating with a velocity which depends on the amplitude ratio of the local relative…
BAB. -F. Apostol, S. Stefan, M. ApostolThe power spectrum, S, of horizontal transects of plankton abundance are often observed to have a power-law dependence on wavenumber, k, with exponent close to -2: S(k) k-2 over a…
JPJon D. PelletierWe model the ascent of warm, moist air in the Earth's atmosphere by turbulent convection and expansion with the KPZ equation, familiar in the physics literature on surface growth. Clouds form in…
JPJon D. PelletierWe present a model for variations in atmospheric temperature from time scales of one day to one million years based on a stochastic diffusion (random walk) model of the turbulent transport of heat…
JPJon D. PelletierHadley circulations and large scale motions of moist convection in the two dimensional numerical model
ao-sciAs a tool for understanding the meridional circulation of the atmosphere, a two-dimensional ( latitude -- height ) numerical model is used to clarify the relationship between the Hadley circulation…
MSMasaki SatohThe mechanisms of interaction between the seasonal cycle and ENSO are investigated using the Zebiak and Cane ENSO prediction model. The most dominant seasonal effect is found to be due to the wind…
ETEli Tziperman, Steve Zebiak, Mark CaneThis study illustrates the application of a random strong line (RSL) model of radiative transfer to the interpretation of satellite observations of the upwelling radiation in the 6.3 micron water…
BSBrian J. Soden, Francis P. BrethertonA combination of analytical and numerical techniques are used to efficiently determine the qualitative and quantitative behaviour of a one-basin zonally averaged thermohaline circulation ocean model.…
GSG. A. Schmidt, L. A. MysakThe scaling argument developed by Larichev and Held (1995) for eddy amplitudes and fluxes in a horizontally homogeneous, two-layer model on an f-plane is extended to a beta-plane. In terms of the…
IHIsaac M. Held, Vitaly D. LarichevThe interdecadal variability of a stochastically forced four-box model of the oceanic meridional thermohaline circulation (THC) is described and compared to the THC variability in the coupled…
SGStephen M. Griffies, Eli TzipermanPredictability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) variability as simulated in the GFDL coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model is established for a set of ensemble…
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