Rendiconti della Scuola internazionale di fisica "Enrico Fermi."

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North-Holland, 1992 - Atmospheric physics - 579 pages

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Observing the atmosphere by infrared limb scanning
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The mean circulation and totalexposure constituents vs localre laxation constituents
3
Definitions of mean and the threedimensional diabatic mass circula
4
Mean circulation dymanics downward control and stratospheretro posphere exchange
5
The polar cooling thoughtexperiment
6
Capabilities
7
The origin of the torque
8
Rossbywave propagation and breaking and the effect on I
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ers and the failure of the eddydiffusivity hypothesis
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the conservation and impermeability properties and the concept of generalized PV rearrangement
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the challenge for EOS
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its role in trans port and tropospherestratosphere coupling 1 Introduction
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A simple box model
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The nature of the circulation of the middle atmosphere
390
Basic dynamical equations
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MARELLI The use of EOS for studies of atmospheric physics
35
THE TROPOSPHERE
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Chemical models
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J R DRUMMOND Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
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Carbon dioxide
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The MOPITT instrument
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MOPITT program status
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Specific TES goals
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Spatial coverage
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F MOLTENI Atmospheric lowfrequency variability and the role
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Conclusions
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investigation of atmospheric dynamics and transport from Eos 1 Introduction 2 Measurement objectives 3 Measurement approach 31
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Conclusions
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Airsea interactions and hydrology over the tropical oceans
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R RIZZI and M M BONZAGNI Principles of remote sensing of atmo
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Spectral distribution of radiance leaving the atmosphere
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Integration over frequency
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The use of satellite data in numerical weather prediction
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A SLINGO Satellite observations of clouds for climate studies
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Main atmospheric forcings on different spatial scales
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erties from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
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Y YAMAGUCHI I SATO and H TSU ITIR design concept and sci
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Cloud studies
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THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE
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pag
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Nitrous oxide
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Eddydriven crosstropopause transport
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Global exchange rates
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Nitrogen oxides
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Water vapor exchange
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G VISCONTI F SASSI and G PITARI Transport in the middle atmo sphere from satellite data Introduction
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Twodimensional models of the stratosphere
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Use of satellite data 21 Residual circulation 22 Eddy coefficients 23 Trajectory calculation and prognostic models Conclusions
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formations for atmospheric measurements 1 Introduction
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Conservative coordinates
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Measurements in q 0space 4 Reconstruction of constituent fields 5 Degenerate coordinates 6 Summary 419 420
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Wind measurements pag
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Sulfur
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Instrument description
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Conclusion
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S A ISAKSEN lower stratosphere 1 Introduction
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Formation of the ozone layer
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Observed ozone changes
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Increases in chlorine levels in the stratosphere 5 Formation of reservoir species 6 Heterogeneous chemistry
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RUSSELL III The Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far Infrared Emission Experiment SAFIRE 1 Science background and goals
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Experiment measurement approach
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J W WATERS Submillimeter heterodyne spectroscopy and remote sensing of the upper atmosphere 1 Introduction
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Stratospheric molecules and submillimeter measurement possibili ties
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The UARS Microwave Limb Sounder
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The EOS Microwave Limb Sounder
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Appendix B Theory
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FORTRAN code for absorption coefficients
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