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Coupling Processes in the Lower and Middle Atmosphere

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Editors:
  1. Eivind V. Thrane

    1. Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Division for Electronics, Kjeller, Norway

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  2. Tom A. Blix

    1. Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Division for Electronics, Kjeller, Norway

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  3. David C. Fritts

    1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 387)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Large-Scale Dynamics

    1. On Global Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in Column Ozone

      • Ka Kit Tung, Hu Yang
      Pages 1-23

    2. Circulation Deduced from Aerosol Data Averaged by Season and Phase of the Quasibiennial Oscillation

      • Matthew H. Hitchman, Megan A. McKay, Charles R. Trepte
      Pages 25-33

    3. Intraseasonal Tropical—Extra-Tropical Interactions Observed in the Stratosphere

      • Steven Pawson, Karin Labitzke, Barbara Naujokat, Risheng Wang, Klaus Fraedrich
      Pages 35-47

    4. Stratosphere—Troposphere Air Mass Exchange and Cross—Tropopause Fluxes of Ozone

      • A. Ebel, H. Elbern, A. Oberreuter
      Pages 49-65

  4. Gravity Waves: Sources, Saturation Processes, Spectra and Transports

    1. Convectively Generated Stratospheric Gravity Waves: The Role of Mean Wind Shear

      • J. R. Holton, D. Durran
      Pages 175-189

    2. Gravity Wave Sources, Source Variability and Lower and Middle Atmosphere Effects

      • David C. Fritts
      Pages 191-208

    3. Nonlinear Evolution of an Upward Propagating Gravity Wave: A Numerical Case Study

      • R. L. Walterscheid, G. Schubert
      Pages 209-218

    4. Numerical Problems in Gravity Wave Simulation

      • Ø. Andreassen
      Pages 219-231

    5. A Critical Comparison of Theories of Gravity Wave Saturation

      • C. O. Hines
      Pages 233-239

    6. Lagrangian Coordinates and their Application to Gravity Wave Spectra

      • J. Weinstock
      Pages 241-260

    7. Spectral Estimates of Gravity Wave Energy and Momentum Fluxes

      • Thomas E. Vanzandt, David C. Fritts
      Pages 261-290

  5. Turbulence and Small-Scale Processes

    1. Waves-Turbulence Coupling

      • Claude Sidi
      Pages 291-304
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About this book

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coupling Processes in the Lower and Middle atmosphere held in Loen, Norway in May 1992 was, in the estimation of apparently all participants, an enormous success. The 18 invited speakers included many of the leaders in the field and resulted in the attendance of a large number of contributing speakers and observers. The subject of the workshop was itself very timely, given the increasing awareness within the international community of the sensitivity of the atmosphere to coupling between adjacent layers, different latitudes, and various scales of motion. It was also very beneficial to bring together researchers with different approaches to the same or similar problems. For example, experimentalists benefitted from the inputs of modelers and theoreticians concerning the needs of current models and the most pressing problems and unknowns. Likewise, theoreticians were challenged to apply themselves to realistic problems and saw their theories tested against geophysical data. These discussions led to meaningful exchanges of ideas and challenges to or displacement of conventional wisdom in some areas. Indeed, possibly the greatest benefit of the workshop was the exposure of many participants to other areas of research or approaches to problems relevant to their own work. Workshop topics were confined to dynamical coupling processes in order to examine progress in a relatively focussed area. Nevertheless, the results presented spanned spatial scales from molecular to global and temporal scales from seconds to decades.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Division for Electronics, Kjeller, Norway

    Eivind V. Thrane, Tom A. Blix

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    David C. Fritts

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coupling Processes in the Lower and Middle Atmosphere

  • Editors: Eivind V. Thrane, Tom A. Blix, David C. Fritts

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1594-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2127-9Published: 31 January 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4694-7Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1594-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 410

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences

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