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