MARCEL LEROUX 'DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE: ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION, PERTURBATIONS, CLIMATIC EVOLUTION'

摘要

First and foremost, Professor Marcel Leroux (1938-2008) was a Cartesian. His reconstruction of the geometry of atmospheric circulation is unparalleled and is based on the synthesis of facts and measures initially borne from his own detailed analysis of the weather and climate evolution in tropical Africa. Quoting Leroux, "it must explain everything or it explains nothing". Leroux demonstrates that contrary to accepted ideas, the main instrument, the principal vector of weather happens in the lower, denser layers of the atmosphere and is the Mobile Polar High that feeds cold air towards the tropics and in turn causes warm air to move up to the poles, as a result of the polar thermal deficit and its variations.