100 Years of Progress in Understanding the General Circulation of the Atmosphere

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• Journal Title:
  Meteorological Monographs
• Personal Author:
  Held, Isaac M.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Description:
  Some of the advances of the past century in our understanding of the general circulation of the atmosphere are described, starting with a brief summary of some of the key developments from the first half of the twentieth century, but with a primary focus on the period beginning with the midcentury breakthrough in baroclinic instability and quasigeostrophic dynamics. In addition to baroclinic instability, topics touched upon include the following: stationary wave theory, the role played by the two-layer model, scaling arguments for the eddy heat flux, the subtlety of large-scale eddy momentum fluxes, the Eliassen–Palm flux and the transformed Eulerian mean formulation, the structure of storm tracks, and the controls on the Hadley cell.
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Science Oceanography
• Source:
  Meteorological Monographs, 59, 6.1-6.23
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/amsmonographs-d-18-0017.1
• ISSN:
  0065-9401
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  American Meteorological Society
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:de6d4ac3ac9c0d7b03db75f1bea44e89e71c107a2257cb922c16839393e21e65b0fdcee3f7bf22e2de861939cad1be36c20754be15bef4ad06b44e8ff51da186
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/64097/noaa_64097_DS1.pdf
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