Clear-air turbulence in the upper atmosphere

Authors

  • Robert Long The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Atmospheric physics, Meteorology

Abstract

Clear-air turbulence in the upper atmosphere is intimately associated with the presence of density variations and, paradoxically, primarily with gravitationallly stable density variations....  The remaining two causes of turbulence, namely gravitational instability and the instability of shear, are obviously the basic causes of clear-air turbulence....

Author Biography

Robert Long, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2017-11-17

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