Interannual variability in the spectra of the daily surface pressure at four stations in the southern hemisphere

F. Kamstra

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v39i5.11777

Interannual variability in the spectra of the daily surface pressure at four stations in the southern hemisphere

Tellus

Volume 39 (1987): Issue 5

By: F. Kamstra

Open Access

|Jan 1987

Abstract

The work reported here was prompted to some extent by the work done by Preston-Whyte and Tyson (1973) who presented spectra for 1966 for 14 stations spaced along the coasl of South Africa. At these stations, with the eltception of the two northern-most along the west coast, a distinct peak at a period of 6 days was found. This figure has subsequently been widely quoted (eg. Gill, 1977; Bannon, 1981; Nelson and Hutchings, 1983) as typical of pressure oscillations along the coast.

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