EAS372 -- A selection of classic papers -- 2013

• Ekman, 1905: On the influence of the Earth's rotation on ocean currents, Arch. Math. Astron. Phys., 2, 1-52. (Derives the ``Ekman spiral'' for winds/currents in a boundary layer) Reviewed by Jennifer

• G.I. Taylor, 1915: The Eddy Motion in the Atmosphere, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A215, 1915. (Winds in the friction layer ("Ekman layer"))

• Ekman, 1928: Eddy-viscosity and skin-friction in the dynamics of winds and ocean-currents, Memoirs of the Royal Meteorological Society 2, 161-172. (Winds in the friction layer)

• G.S. Callendar, 1938: The artificial production of carbon dioxide and its influence on temperature, Quart. J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 64, 223-240. (Global warming). Reviewed by Tara.

• Rossby et al., 1939: Relation between variations in the intensity of the zonal circulation of the atmosphere and the displacement of the semipermanent centers of action, J. Marine Research, 2, 38-55.

• A.M. Obukhov, 1946: Turbulence in an Atmosphere with a Non-Uniform Temperature. Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 2, 7-29, 1971 (Originally published in: Works of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Acad. Sci. USSR, No. 1). According to Businger and Yaglom (1971; BLM Vol. 2, 3-6) Obukhov finished this work in 1943 and published it first in 1946.

• Charney, 1947: The dynamics of long waves in a baroclinic westerly current, J. Meteor., 4, 135-162.

• Sutcliffe, 1947: A contribution to the problem of development, Quart. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 73, 370-383. (Weather development) Reviewed by Danielle

• Penman, 1948: Natural Evaporation from Open Water, Bare Soil and Grass, Proc. R. Soc. London Series A. 193, 120-146, 1948. (Formula to calculate evaporation)Reviewed by Jean-Michel

• J.G. Charney, 1948. On the scale of atmospheric motions, Geofys. Publ. Oslo, 17, 1-17. (By means of a scale analysis, Charney derives the QG equations) Reviewed by Ambrose

• Eady, 1949: Long Waves and Cyclone Waves, Tellus 1, 33-52, 1949

• Charney, 1949: On a Physical Basis for Numerical Prediction of Large-Scale Motions in the Atmosphere, J. Meteorol. 6, 371-385, 1949.

• Charney, Fjortoft, and von Neumann, 1950: Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation, Tellus, 2, 237-254, 1950.

• Eady, 1951: The quantitative theory of cyclone development, Compendium of Meteorology. Ed., T. F. Malone, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 464-469. Reviewed by Darren

• Phillips, 1951: A simple three-dimensional model for the study of large-scale extratropical flow patterns, J. Meteor., 8, 381-394.

• Eady, 1952: Note on weather computing and the so-called 2-1/2 dimensional model, Tellus, 4, 157-167.

• Charney and Phillips, 1953: Numerical integration of the quasi-geostrophic equations for barotropic and simple baroclinic flows, J. Meteorol. 10, 71-99, 1953

• Monin and Obukhov, 1954: Basic Laws of Turbulent Mixing in the Ground Layer of the Atmosphere, Trudy Geofiz. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 151, 163-187. (Laws of the microclimate near ground)

• Bolin, 1955: Numerical Forecasting with the Barotropic Model, Tellus 7, 27-49. (Numerical weather prediction)

• Charney, 1955: The Use of the Primitive Equations of Motion in Numerical Prediction, Tellus 1, 22-26, 1955.

• Phillips, 1957: A Coordinate System Having some Special Advantages for Numerical Forecasting, J. Meteorology 14, 184-185. Reviewed by Tobe

• Ellsaesser, 1968: Diagnosis of early baroclinic NWP models, J. Appl. Meteorol., 7, 153-159. (Of mainly historical interest, due to its Discussion of successes and failures of the earliest NWP models, with a simple interpretation) Reviewed by Allen

• Manabe and Weatherald, 1975: The Effects of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the Climate of a General Circulation Model, J. Atmos. Sci. 32, 3-15. (Global warming) Reviewed by Brett

Sources:

• Royal Meteorol. Soc.
• Princeton

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