Atlas of linear trends in northern-hemisphere tropospheric geopotential height and temperature patterns
| dc.contributor.author | Reiter, Elmar R., author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Westhoff, Daniel R., author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, publisher | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Northern Hemisphere | |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1951-1978 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-15T20:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-03-15T20:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981-05 | |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | |
| dc.description | May 1981. | |
| dc.description | Some of the computations were performed at the Computing Facility of the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colorado. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Gridded NMC data for 500-mb geopotential height, 300/500-mb and 500/700-mb thickness for the period 1951 to 1978 were subjected to linear trend analyses. These analyses were performed for each calendar month. Significant geographical and seasonal distributions of cooling and warming patterns emerged. An atmospheric cooling trend over the North Pacific during the winter months appears to be associated with oceanic cooling in that region, but also to planetary-wave adjustments, suggesting that ocean-atmosphere feedback mechanisms are effectively at work over climatic time scales. Consistently large temperature trends also appear over the Asian continent. Comparisons between thickness trends in the 1ayer 300/500-mb with those in the layer 500/700-mb reveal well-pronounced patterns of stabilization and destabilization. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. ATM 80 16867 and by the Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AS02-76EV01340. | |
| dc.format.medium | reports | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/171093 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation | Catalog record number (MMS ID): 991005932509703361 | |
| dc.relation | QC851.C63a no.34 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Atmospheric Science Papers (Blue Books) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Publications | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Environmental research papers (Fort Collins, Colo.), no. 34 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Climatic changes -- Charts, diagrams, etc. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Atmospheric circulation -- Charts, diagrams, etc. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Rossby waves -- Charts, diagrams, etc. | |
| dc.title | Atlas of linear trends in northern-hemisphere tropospheric geopotential height and temperature patterns | |
| dc.type | Text |
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