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Trends of thought concerning meteorological research

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Certain problems of synoptic meteorology relating to the nature of the large quasi-stationary cyclonic and anticyclonic centers aloft are examined from the standpoint of an hypothesis which seeks to connect their maintenance with that of the smaller transient disturbances. The suggested link between these two scales of eddies is in many ways similar to that operating in the general circulaton in order to account for the sustained existence of the circumpolar mean zonal motions, according to the more modern concepts. Newer views concerning the dynamcis of large convective processes, and the essential nonlinearity of the laws governing motions in the atmosphere, figure importantly in the arguments advanced.

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Gewisse Probleme der synotischen Meteorologie im Zusammenhang mit der Natur von grossen halb-stationären zyklonischen und antizyklonischen Zentren in der höheren Atmosphäre werden von einem hypothetischen Standpunkt aus untersucht; und es wird versucht, deren Bestehen in Zusammenhang zu bringen mit dem Vorhandensein von kleineren, vorübergehenden Störungen. Der vorgeschlagene Zusammenhang zwischen diesen beiden Arten von Wirbel-Systemen ähnelt in vielen Beziehungen der allgemeinen Zirkulation, die verantwortlich ist für das fortwährende Bestehen der zirkumpolaren durchschnittlichen zonalen Strömungen, wie sie zufolge modernerer Auffassungen erklärt werden. Neuere Standpunkte, die die Dynamik von grossen konvektiven Vorgängen in der Atmosphäre und die nicht-linearen Gesetze im Hinblick auf die atmosphärischen Strömungs-Gesetze betreffen, werden hauptsächlich in der folgenden Abhandlung untersucht.

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Starr, V.P. Trends of thought concerning meteorological research. Geofisica Pura e Applicata 43, 269–277 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01993564

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