A New Concept of Available Potential Energy

摘要

The report consists of two parts. The first is a paper presented at the International Symposium on the Dynamics of Large-Scale Processes in the Atmosphere in Moscow in June 1965 describing a new concept of available potential energy and outlining a combined theoretical, experimental and observational approach to certain aspects of the problem of planetary-scale atmospheric fluctuations. The second part is an appendix containing additional temperature distributions observed at the beginning and end of several marked declines of available potential energy in the atmosphere. (Author)