Transport Processes in the Middle Atmosphere

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Dynamical Climatology of the Middle Atmoshere

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Troposphere-Stratosphere General Circulation Statistics

      • Marvin A. Geller, Mao-Fou Wu

      Pages 3-17

   3. A Review of Observations of the Quasi-Biennial and Semiannual Oscillations of Wind and Temperature in the Tropical Middle Atmosphere

      • Kevin Hamilton

      Pages 19-29

   4. Recent Progress in Gravity Wave Saturation Studies

      • David C. Fritts

      Pages 31-46

   5. Radar Observations of Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere

      • R. A. Vincent

      Pages 47-56

   6. The Seasonal Evolution of the Stratosphere in the Northern Hemisphere

      • A. O’Neill, V. D. Pope

      Pages 57-69

3. Observations and Analysis of Chemical Constituents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Distributions of Ozone and Nitric Acid Measured by the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere (LIMS)

      • John C. Gille

      Pages 73-85

   3. The Near Global Distributions of Middle Atmospheric H2O and NO2Measured by the Nimbus 7 LIMS Experiment

      • Ellis E. Remsberg, James M. Russell III

      Pages 87-102

   4. Satellite Measurements of Stratospheric Aerosols

      • M. P. McCormick, Pi-Huan Wang

      Pages 103-120

   5. Evidence for Planetary Wave Breaking from Satellite Data: The Relative Roles of Diabatic Effects and Irreversible Mixing

      • Neal Butchart

      Pages 121-136

   6. Seasonal Variation in the Variance of Stratospheric Ozone and Potential Temperature Over Hohenpeissenberg, F.R.G.

      • E. P. Röth, D. H. Ehhalt

      Pages 137-152

   7. Satellite Observations of the Antarctic Ozone Depletion

      • Mark R. Schoeberl

      Pages 153-165

4. Transport in the Middle Atmosphere: Theory and Modeling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Transport Mechanisms in the Middle Atmosphere: An Introductory Survey

      • David G. Andrews

      Pages 169-181

   3. A Coupled Model of Zonally Averaged Dynamics, Radiation and Chemistry

      • K. K. Tung

      Pages 183-198

   4. The Influence of the Semi-Annual and Quasi-Biennial Oscillations on Equatorial Tracer Distributions

      • L. J. Gray, J. A. Pyle

      Pages 199-214

   5. The Effect of Breaking Gravity Waves on the Distribution of Trace Species in the Middle Atmosphere

      • Guy Brasseur, Matthew Hitchman

      Pages 215-227

   6. Modeling the Transport of Chemically Active Constituents in the Stratosphere

      • W. L. Grose, J. E. Nealy, R. E. Turner, W. T. Blackshear

      Pages 229-250

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Transport Processes in the Middle Atmosphere" was held in Erice, Sicily, from November 23 through November 27, 1986. In addition to NATO, the workshop was supported by the International School of Atmospheric Physics of the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture, and by the National Research Council of Italy. The Organizing Committee was fortunate to enlist the participation of many of the experts in the field, and this book is an account of their contributions. In order to expedite publication and keep the results "as fresh as possible" , it was decided to forego formal review of the papers; instead, the authors were asked to solicit internal reviews from their colleagues. Further, each paper was thoroughly discussed and criticized during the meeting, and those discussions have been taken into account in the preparation of the final version of the manuscripts. Occasional short presentations were made by some of the Workshop participants who wished to provide information complementary to that given in the invited talks. These presentations are not included in this book, which contains only the invited papers. The book is organized into five chapters corresponding to the different topics cov­ ered by the Workshop. The first two chapters contain general reviews of the dynamical climatology of the middle atmosphere and of the growing body of data available on the dis­ tribution of chemical constituents.

• Aerosol
• Climatology
• Ozone depletion
• Troposphere
• satellite
• temperature
• wind

• Department of Physics, University of L’Aquila, Italy

  Guido Visconti

• National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

  Rolando Garcia

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