Title: The climatological wind and wind variability between 45 and 60 kilometers
Abstract: In an earlier paper the author made use of data from the meteorological rocket network in a study of climatological (and other) winds at 45 km. The data were insufficient at that time to permit us to make similar analyses at higher altitudes. However, the number of observations has now increased sufficiently to allow us to compute the climatological wind and wind variability up to an altitude of 60 km for that part of the network south of 40°N latitude. It was determined that the annual wind regime consists of a long winter season of strong westerlies and a shorter summer season of strong easterlies, separated by brief transitional periods of weak and variable winds. The seasonal wind shifts appear first at the 60-km level and proceed downward to the 45-km level with a lag of about 10 days. The wind speed increases with altitude in both winter and summer. No longitudinal relationships were found. The standard deviations associated with the climatological winds were computed for all altitudes, months, and seasons.
Publication Year: 1963
Publication Date: 1963-06-15
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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