Rossby wave packets (RWPs) are Rossby waves for which the amplitude has a local
maximum and decays to smaller values at larger distances. This review focuses on upper …

This paper reviews the current state of observational, theoretical, and modeling knowledge
of the midlatitude storm tracks of the Northern Hemisphere cool season. Observed storm …

A new formulation of an approximate conservation relation of wave-activity
pseudomomentum is derived, which is applicable for either stationary or migratory …

This is the story of the marriage of two disciplines: physical oceanography and ocean
acoustics. It was a marriage of convenience, but with mutual respect, even love. I have spent …

It is shown that the effects of mesoscale eddies on tracer transports can be parameterized in
a large-scale model by additional advection and diffusion of tracers. Thus, tracers are …

Atmospheric blocking due to anomalous, persistent meandering of the jet stream often
causes weather extremes in the mid-latitudes. Despite the ubiquity of blocking, the onset …

The principal modes of month-to-month variability of the wintertime storm tracks over the
North Pacific and North Atlantic are identified by empirical orthogonal function analysis of …

Tropical oceans play major roles in the natural variability of the world climate. Anomalous
coupled ocean–atmosphere phenomena generated in the tropical oceans produce global …

Abstract From 1979 to 1989, global European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
(ECMWF) analyses of many meteorological variables important in baroclinic storms have …

An extremely hot and dry summer of 1994 was reported in East Asian countries. Using
observational data, we have demonstrated that the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is at least one …