Middle Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport: Some Current Challenges to our Understanding

Buoyancy Effects in Fluids

1973 • 2,905 citations

On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps

1985 • 2,853 citations

Buoyancy Effects in Fluids

1974 • 2,715 citations

Small-scale variation of convected quantities like temperature in turbulent fluid Part 1. General discussion and the case of small conductivity

1959 • 1,776 citations

On the “Downward Control” of Extratropical Diabatic Circulations by Eddy-Induced Mean Zonal Forces

1991 • 988 citations

The effect of breaking gravity waves on the dynamics and chemical composition of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

1985 • 814 citations

Eddy Viscosity in Two and Three Dimensions

1976 • 677 citations

On the Evolution of Vorticity and Potential Vorticity in the Presence of Diabatic Heating and Frictional or Other Forces

1987 • 578 citations

On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps

1985 • 566 citations

The effect of homogeneous turbulence on material lines and surfaces

1952 • 354 citations

A high-resolution one-layer model of breaking planetary waves in the stratosphere

1987 • 324 citations

The Zonally Averaged Transport Characteristics of the GFDL General Circulation/Transport Model

1987 • 282 citations

Limitations of Gradient Transport Models in Random Walks and in Turbulence

1975 • 279 citations

PLANETARY FLOW PATTERNS IN THE ATMOSPHERE

1940 • 275 citations

On the Conservation and Impermeability Theorems for Potential Vorticity

1990 • 264 citations

Vortex Waves: Stationary "<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>V</mml:mi></mml:math>States," Interactions, Recurrence, and Breaking

1978 • 255 citations

Fast-response dual-beam UV-absorption ozone photometer suitable for use on stratospheric balloons

1983 • 197 citations

Stratospheric‐tropospheric exchange processes

1975 • 189 citations

Vortex Waves: Stationary "<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>V</mml:mi></mml:math>States," Interactions, Recurrence, and Breaking.

1978 • 179 citations

Frontogenesis in the Presence of Small Stability to Slantwise Convection

1985 • 157 citations

Three‐dimensional analysis of potential vorticity associated with tropopause folds and observed variations of ozone and carbon monoxide

1987 • 142 citations

On the Antarctic ozone hole

1989 • 136 citations

On dynamics and transport near the polar mesopause in summer

1989 • 133 citations

Fluxes of Heat and Constituents Due to Convectively Unstable Gravity Waves

1985 • 132 citations

The Separated Polar Winter Stratopause: A Gravity Wave Driven Climatological Feature

1989 • 130 citations

Laboratory model of a planetary eastward jet

1989 • 129 citations

Instability of the Distorted Polar Night Vortex: A Theory of Stratospheric Warmings

1981 • 121 citations

Nonlinear Evolution of an Upward Propagating Gravity Wave: Overturning, Convection, Transience and Turbulence

1990 • 120 citations

A note on the general concept of wave breaking for Rossby and gravity waves

1985 • 108 citations

The planning and execution of ER‐2 and DC‐8 aircraft flights over Antarctica, August and September 1987

1989 • 102 citations

Evaluation of effective eddy diffusive coefficients using radar observations of turbulence in the stratosphere

1984 • 96 citations

A dynamically based transport parameterization for one‐dimensional photochemical models of the stratosphere

1986 • 92 citations

Shear Excitation of Atmospheric Gravity Waves. Part II: Nonlinear Radiation from a Free Shear Layer

1984 • 90 citations

High-latitude ozone loss outside the Antarctic ozone hole

1989 • 89 citations

Simulations of linear and nonlinear disturbances in the stratosphere

1988 • 84 citations

Shear Excitation of Atmospheric Gravity Waves

1982 • 81 citations

Seasonal variations of ozone in the upper mesosphere and gravity waves

1984 • 81 citations

Dissipative wave-mean interactions and the transport of vorticity or potential vorticity

1990 • 78 citations

Measurements of internal gravity waves in a continuously stratified shear flow

1986 • 73 citations

Forced, Dissipative Generalizations of Finite-Amplitude Wave-Activity Conservation Relations for Zonal and Nonzonal Basic Flows

1988 • 66 citations

On the Linear Approximation of Gravity Wave Saturation in the Mesosphere

1984 • 61 citations

Gravity Wave 1-leat Fluxes: A Lagrangian Approach

1988 • 56 citations

A Shallow Water Model of the Winter Stratosphere

1989 • 45 citations

A comparison of one-, two- and three-dimensional model representations of stratospheric gases

1979 • 44 citations

Global Transport Calculations with an Equivalent Barotropic System

1990 • 30 citations

An observational study of the final warming in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere

1986 • 26 citations

Warm Stratopause in the Antarctic Winter

1989 • 25 citations

On the Formation of Potential-Vorticity Anomalies in Upper-Level Jet-Front Systems

1990 • 23 citations

Dynamics and Tracer Transport in the Middle Atmosphere: An Overview of Some Recent Developments

1987 • 23 citations

Dynamical factors affecting ozone mixing ratios in the Antarctic lower stratosphere

1987 • 22 citations

The 'camp' Campaign 1982

1985 • 11 citations

On the Dynamics of a Stratified Liquid

1963 • 8 citations

HOW deep is an 'ozone hole'?

1988 • 8 citations

An additional bibliographical sketch on the development of Ertel's potential vorticity theorem

1988 • 3 citations