We examine the mean zonal momentum balance in the tropical mid-Pacific using a year of acoustic Doppler current profiler velocities and conductivitytemperature-depth profiler densities from the Hawaii-to-Tahiti Shuttle Experiment. All significant contributions from the mean, annual cycle, and higher-frequency flow fields are determined with the exception of the vertical stresses. We find that e...

This paper investigates the dynamical processes throughwhich the Tibetan Plateau (TP) influences theEast Asian summer monsoon (EASM) within the framework of the moist static energy (MSE) budget, using both observations and atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) simulations. The focus is on the most prominent feature of the EASM, the so-called meiyu–baiu (MB), which is characterized by a w...

The National Institute of Oceanography, Goa deployed moorings with several subsurface current meters at 0◦, 93◦E (in February 2000) and 0◦, 83◦E (in December 2000) in the eastern Indian Ocean. Observed meridional current at all depths has a 10-20 day (or biweekly) variability that is distinct from longer period (20-60 day) subseasonal variability. Lags between different instruments suggest the ...

Abstract This work uses the Specified Dynamics‐Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Ionosphere/Thermosphere eXtension (SD‐WACCM‐X) to determine and explain seasonality of migrating semidiurnal tide (SW2) components tropical upper mesosphere lower thermosphere (UMLT) temperature, zonal wind, meridional wind. also quantifies aliasing due SW2 in satellite‐based tidal estimates. Results sh...

the climate and weather patterns of buffalo (new york, u.s.a.) are strongly influenced by thecity’s proximity to lake erie. total monthly snowfall in buffalo is forecasted using neural network techniques(multi-layer perceptron = mlp) and a multiple linear regression (lr) model. the period of analysis comprises 28 years from january 1982 to december 2009. input data include: zonal wind speed (u-...

The effects of large winds on the low-latitude E region ionosphere and the equatorial electrojet in particular are analyzed theoretically, computationally, and experimentally. The principles that govern the relationship between electric fields, currents, and winds in steady flows in the ionosphere are reviewed formally. A three-dimensional numerical model of low latitude ionospheric electrostat...

Significant differences are found between the mean spectral widths from beams in the meridional plane and in the zonal plane at both the MU and the White Sands VHF radars. The spectral width in the beam directed perpendicular to the prevailing wind is greater than that in the beam parallel to the wind. The magnitudes of the differences in spectral width show a linear relationship with wind spee...

For an imposed thermal forcing localized off the equator, it is known that conservation of absolute angular momentum in axisymmetric flow produces a nonlinear response once the forcing exceeds a critical amplitude. It is shown here that, for a moist atmosphere in convective quasi-equilibrium, the combination of wind-dependent ocean surface enthalpy fluxes and zonal momentum advection can provid...

While the Voyager mission could essentially not reveal the dynamics of Titan's troposphere, useful information was obtained by the Cassini spacecraft and, particularly, by the Huygens probe that landed on Titan's surface; this information can be interpreted by means of numerical models of atmospheric circulation. The meridional circulation is likely to consist of a large Hadley circulation asym...

Variations in the warm water volume (WWV) of the equatorial Pacific Ocean are considered a key element of the dynamics of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. WWV, a proxy for the upperocean heat content, is usually defined as the volume of water with temperatures greater than 208C. It has been suggested that the observed variations in WWV are controlled by interplay among meridi...