Colorado State University. Department of Atmospheric Science.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 110
Pub. Date
1967.
Description
In this paper an analysis is performed on a "minor breakdown" of the stratospheric circulation which occurred during a period of general intensification of the polar vortex (15 November to 15 December 1958).
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 334
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1981.
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A time-dependent, hemispheric, primitive-equation numerical model is constructed to test Hines' (1974) hypothesis that solar variations induce changes in the distributions of basic state variables at high levels in the atmosphere, and thus induce changes in planetary-scale wave structure at lower atmospheric levels. This mechanism was proposed to explain apparent atmospheric responses to solar activity.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 125
Pub. Date
1968.
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The geostrophic system of equations with both the effects of orography and heat contrast corresponding to land-sea distribution is integrated with respect to time by using the spectral method. The computed results show the appearance of reasonable blocking situation and a corresponding double jet stream in the latitudinal distribution of the zonally averaged zonal wind.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 136
Pub. Date
1969.
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The structure of hail-producing and no hail-producing atmosphere is studied by examining rawinsondes launched at New Raymer, Colorado, in the summer of 1967. It is found through examination of mean soundings and the convective condensation level and level of free convection that an ample low-level moisture supply is important for hailstorms to form.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 205
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1973.
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Data acquired during the 1972 Venezuelan International Meteorological and Hydrological Experiment is used to study the thermodynamic structure of the cumulus sub-cloud layer: its time dependence, and transformation by precipitation. A close relationship between lifting condensation level (LCL) and cloud base, and between LCL and the transition layer is found.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 162
Pub. Date
1970.
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The development of atmospheric cyclones is studied from the viewpoint of the instability of large-scale wave perturbations superimposed on a zonal current.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 337
Pub. Date
1981.
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The microphysical processes associated with the growth of cloud and precipitation particles during two stable orographic storms are identified.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 226
Pub. Date
1974.
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A simple formalism for the diagnostic use of the feedback and static control portions of the theory is presented. The relation of the subgrid scale flux forms and the detrainment forms of the large-scale heat and moisture budgets is also discussed.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 224
Pub. Date
1974.
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This study represents an attempt to come to grips with the meteorological conditions associated with the Northeast region individual precipitation patterns.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 430
Pub. Date
1988.
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A study of ozone chemistry and meteorological processes occurring in the eastern North Pacific stratocumulus regime. This climatological regime is characterized by widespread, persistent low cloud and an air history that does not include contact with continents for many days. Since both ozone and important in the earth-atmosphere energy balance, the processes studied here are important in the system interactions that govern climate.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 109
Pub. Date
1967.
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The objective of this report is to determine the relationship between snow crystal and ice nuclei concentrations for similar crystal formation and nuclei activation temperatures.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 198
Pub. Date
1973.
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A dynamical forecast model is applied to study the moisture variation in the planetary boundary layer under the chosen synoptic condition. The observed 12-hour moisture patterns are compared with the forecast patterns.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 356
Pub. Date
1982.
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The characteristics of the equatorial symmetric instability that develops if the mean flow is horizontally sheared at the equator are investigated.
