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Some notes on the stratospheric winds at Canton Island and Christmas Island

✍ Scribed by R. A. Ebdon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1961
Tongue
English
Weight
645 KB
Volume
87
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Stratospheric wind data for Canton and Christmas Islands show a fluctuation with a period of about 24 to 28 months in the zonal component. Christmas Island data also show that the fluctuation exists from below 60 mb to 10 mb (the highest level for which data are available) and that the amplitude of the fluctuation increases with height. The change in wind direction from W to E, or vice versa, is evident first at the higher levels and appears to work gradually downwards; at 60 mb the reversal of wind direction is evident about six months after that at 25 mb, and about twelve months after that at 10 mb.

Attempts to connect events in the equatorial stratosphere with events in the equatorial troposphere were not successful.

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