The Atmosphere and the Sea in Motion: Scientific Contributions to the Rossby Memorial Volume

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Current Problems in Meteorology......Page 10
The Young Carl-Gustaf Rossby......Page 52
Carl-Gustaf Rossby, the Organizer......Page 57
Publications by Carl-Gustaf Rossby......Page 61
The Recent Warming of the North Atlantic......Page 66
On the Thermal Unrest in the Ocean......Page 75
On the Vertically Integrated Mass Transport in the Oceans......Page 96
Wind und Massenverteilung Als Ursache Der Meeresstriöimungen......Page 103
The Antarctic Convergence-or Divergence?......Page 108
Climatic Records on the Ocean Floor......Page 122
Changes in the Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere and Sea Due to Fossil Fuel Combustion......Page 131
Salinity and the Residence Time of Subtropical Oceanic Surface Water......Page 144
The Circulation of Some Atmospheric Constituents in the Sea......Page 148
Meteorological Aspects of Oxidation Type Air Pollution......Page 159
A Method for Calculation of Infrared Flux for Use in Numerical Models of Atmospheric Motion......Page 171
On the Theory of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere......Page 179
Some Results Concerning the Distribution and Total Amount of Kinetic Energy in the Atmosphere as a Function of External Heat Sources and Ground Friction......Page 195
On the Maintenance of Kinetic Energy in the Atmosphere......Page 213
Explication Dynamique de la Circulation Générale de L'atmosphère Sur la Base Des Idées de Rossby......Page 226
On the Selective Rôle of the Motion Systems in the Atmospheric General Circulation......Page 231
Persistence of Mid-Tropospheric Circulations between Adjacent Months and Seasons......Page 241
The Abrupt Change of Circulation over the Northern Hemisphere During June and October......Page 250
A Method of Solving the Nonlinear Differential Equations of Atmospheric Tides with Applications to an Atmosphere of Constant Temperature......Page 269
On the Formation of Fronts in the Atmosphere......Page 278
Synoptic Comparisons of Jet Stream and Gulf Stream Systems......Page 289
On Hydrodynamic Instability Caused by an Approach of Subtropical and Polarfront Jet Stream in Northern Latitudes before the Onset of Strong Cyclogenesis......Page 306
A Solution of the Nonlinear Vorticity Equation......Page 327
On the Behavior of Baroclinic Waves......Page 334
Some Statistical Aspects of the Dynamical Processes of Growth and Occlusion in Simple Baroclinic Models......Page 351
The Propagation of Frequency in Experimental Baroclinic Waves in a Rotating Annular Ring......Page 360
A Laboratory Model of Air Flow over the Sierra Nevada Mountains......Page 373
On Production of Kinetic Energy from Condensation Heating......Page 382
Physics of Winter Precipitation in the Desert......Page 401
Dynamics of Convective Vortices and Eye Formation......Page 414
The Evolution of a Convective Element: A Numerical Calculation......Page 426
Methods in Scientific Weather Analysis and Forecasting an Outline in the History of Ideas and Hints at a Program......Page 441
Hemispheric Nondivergent Barotropic Forecasting......Page 476
Ein Numerisches Experiment mit den Primitiven Gleichungen......Page 487
An Example of Non-Linear Computational Instability......Page 502
On the Equivalency of Formulations of Weather Forecasting as an Initial Value Problem and as an "Evolution" Problem......Page 506
Back Cover......Page 516