Adiabatic and Diabatic Initialization of the AFGL Global Spectral Model Using Dynamic Normal Mode and Nonlinear Normal Mode Methods


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Dynamic normal mode initialization (DNI) is applied to low and high resolution versions of the AFGL global spectral mode. This scheme is tested against the operational nonlinear normal mode initialization (NMI) procedure using both adiabatic and diabatic forms of the model tendencies. The DNI-based forecasts are comparable in accuracy to the NMI-based forecasts, with small differences between the adiabatic and diabatic versions of each. DNI initial conditions were somewhat more damped in the divergence fields than were the NMI fields. This is believed to be due to the frequency response characteristics of the DNI's forward-backward time scheme, which tended to partially damp resolvable wavelengths.










Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts


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Covering the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and related environmental sciences.










Radiation Hydrodynamics


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Anagram Solver


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Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.




Chemistry and Radiation Changes in the Ozone Layer


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Recent studies have demonstrated a link between ozone changes caused by human activities and changing UV levels at the Earth's surface, as well as a link to climate through changes in radiative forcing and links to changes in chemical composition. This book draws together key scientists who provide state of the art contributions on the variable ozone layer and the interplay of longwave and shortwave radiative interactions which link ozone, the climate and UV issues.




Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES)


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CAWSES (Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System) is the most important scientific program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). CAWSES has triggered a scientific priority program within the German Research Foundation for a period of 6 years. Approximately 30 scientific institutes and 120 scientists were involved in Germany with strong links to international partners. The priority program focuses on solar influence on climate, atmospheric coupling processes, and space climatology. This book summarizes the most important results from this program covering some important research topics from the Sun to climate. Solar related processes are studied including the evolution of solar radiation with relevance to climate. Results regarding the influence of the Sun on the terrestrial atmosphere from the troposphere to the thermosphere are presented including stratospheric ozone, mesospheric ice clouds, geomagnetic effects, and their relevance to climate. Several chapters highlight the importance of coupling mechanisms within the atmosphere, covering transport mechanisms of photochemically active species, dynamical processes such as gravity waves, tides, and planetary waves, and feedback mechanisms between the thermal and dynamical structure of the atmosphere. Special attention is paid to climate signals in the middle and upper atmosphere and their significance relative to natural variability.




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