STUDIES OF THE STRATOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION

Abstract

The aim of the studies reported in the publication was to elucidate the various mechanisms by which the budgets of energy, angular momentum and mass for the stratospheric region are satisfied. In this work use was made of the data gathered during the International Geophysical Year. Similar studies for the atmospheric regions from the surface up to 100mb were reported previously and it was found that large scale quasi-horizontal eddy processes proved to be the principal agents in the transfer of angular momentum, in the generation of mean zonal kinetic energy and in the transfer of heat energy. It appears that the processes in the stratosphere are more complicated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1962
Accession Number
AD0405885

Entities

People

  • Victor P. Starr

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Angular Momentum
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Climate Change
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Energy Conversion
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Fission Products
  • Grids
  • Heat Energy
  • Meteorology
  • North America
  • Radioactivity
  • Thermodynamics
  • Turbulence
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster