# Browse by Subject "Physics, Atmospheric Science"

• (1996)
Recent model predictions indicate that sulfate aerosol particles cause radiative forcing of the same magnitude but of opposite sign than the forcing caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. The spatial and temporal ...

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• (1993)
We investigate the impact of tropical forcing on the predictability of the atmosphere in a two-layer spectral model. The focus is on the improvement of extended range forecasts in the extratropics from knowledge of the ...

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• (1990)
The first part of this thesis is a study of the dynamics of storm tracks from the perspective of local instability of a class of zonally inhomogeneous basic jet streams. An unstable local mode consists of a group of dominant ...

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• (1991)
The principal objective of this study is to determine whether or not the penetration of a passive tracer is analogous to the penetration of a greenhouse-gas-induced heating.

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• (1991)
In this thesis, the sensitivity of the Earth's climate is studied by modeling past climatic variations with two-dimensional seasonal energy balance model. This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a study of the ...

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• (1982)
Two ensembles of four October 1 to December 10 simulations with a coupled atmosphere-sea ice model are made and a 30-day mean climatic state is calculated for each ensemble for the period of November 11 to December 10. ...

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• (1985)
Arakawa and Schubert (1974) developed a cumulus parameterization scheme in a framework that conceptually divides the mutual interaction of the cumulus convection and large-scale disturbance into the categories of large-scale ...

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• (1996)
Cyclones are an important feature of the Great Lakes region with significant impacts on ice cover, thermal structure, water quality, aquatic life, shipping, and shoreline property. For this research, a historical cyclone ...

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• (1993)
We are interested in establishing how the instability properties of the background circulation might be related to the observed intraseasonal variability. We focus on the intraseasonal variability in two Northern Hemispheric ...

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• (1992)
The following problems: (1) The effects of wave transience on the propagation of planetary waves in the stratosphere; (2) The coupling of the equatorial and extratropical quasi-biennial oscillations; and (3) The propagation ...

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• (1994)
The main objective of this study is to explore the dynamics of storm tracks in the context of a three-layer hemispheric linear-balanced model. We establish first how the instability properties of the relevant background ...

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• (1980)
The importance of gust fronts in triggering new storm development is widely recognized. A three-dimensional numerical cloud model developed by Klemp and Wilhelmson is used to study the relationship of new convection to ...

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• (1992)
Climatologists have attempted to predict changes in regional climate patterns caused by increasing levels of CO$\sb2$ and other trace gases in the atmosphere. Although the effects of climate are felt at the individual firm ...

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• (1994)
A coupled ice-ocean model of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas is developed in order to study the effects of anomalies of precipitation and river runoff on sea ice. A dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model is coupled to an ...

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• (1989)
The evolution of atmospheric baroclinic waves is investigated by a six-layer forced dissipative quasi-geostrophic $\beta$-plane channel model. In the control run, the model has: (i) a realistic zonal thermal forcing, (ii) ...

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• (1993)
The characteristics and causes of raindrop oscillations were studied from two field experiments in Hawaiian and Illinois showers. The former experiment (HaRP) focused on the onset of raindrop oscillations as well as ...

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• (1990)
This thesis presents theoretical models and experimental results of average and instantaneous concentration measurements from a series of atmospheric dispersion experiments conducted under both unstable and stable ...

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• (1991)
Ionospheric tomography has generated great interest due to the possibility of two-dimensional imaging of electron density profiles. Traditional methods have, thus far, been capable of only one-dimensional imaging. Tomographic ...

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• (1988)
The genesis and evolution of easterly waves over the Atlantic Ocean are investigated with a moist multi-level quasi-geostrophic model. The origin of African waves is first re-examined as a linear instability problem of a ...

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