Methods of measuring solar and terrestrial atmospheric circulations

Norman J. Macdonald

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v18i1.9192

Methods of measuring solar and terrestrial atmospheric circulations

Tellus

Volume 18 (1966): Issue 1

By: Norman J. Macdonald

Open Access

|Jan 1966

Abstract

In order either to support or to cast doubt upon the mode of study of the circulation of the solar photosphere recently employed by Ward, a comparable use of his methods is made in a test study of the terrestrial atmosphere for which extensive investigations by independent procedures are available. In a qualified over-all manner, Ward's procedures for measuring the large-scale horizontal eddy components from sunspot displacements are given vindication.

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