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The Trouble with Water: Condensation, Circulation and Climate
Geoffrey K. Vallis
This article discussesl a few of the problems that arise in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate that are associated with the presence of moisture in the air, its condensation an…
Convective Organization and Eastward Propagating Equatorial Disturbances in a Simple Excitable System
Geoffrey K Vallis, James Penn
We describe and illustrate a mechanism whereby convective aggregation and eastward propagating equatorial disturbances, similar in some respects to the Madden--Julian oscillation,…
Meridional Structure and Future Changes of Tropopause Height and Temperature
Shineng Hu, Geoffrey K. Vallis
We use a simple, semi-analytic, column model to better understand the meridional structure of the tropopause height and the future changes in its height and temperature associated…
A Simple System for Moist Convection: the Rainy-Benard Model
Geoffrey K. Vallis, Douglas J. Parker, Steven M. Tobias
Raylaigh-Benard convection is one of the most well-studied models in fluid mechanics. Atmospheric convection, one of the most important components of the climate system, is by comp…
Zonal-mean atmospheric dynamics of slowly-rotating terrestrial planets
G. J. Colyer, G. K. Vallis
The zonal-mean atmospheric flow of an idealized terrestrial planet is analyzed using both numerical simulations and zonally symmetric theories, focusing largely on the limit of low…
A Stochastic Lagrangian Basis for a Probabilistic Parameterization of Moisture Condensation in Eulerian Models
Yue-Kin Tsang, Geoffrey K. Vallis
In this paper we describe the construction of an efficient probabilistic parameterization that could be used in a coarse-resolution numerical model in which the variation of moistu…