The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The general circulation of the atmosphere: A numerical experiment
Abstract
A long‐period numerical forecast is made with a two‐level quasi‐geostrophic model, starting with an atmosphere in relative rest. Both friction and non‐adiabatic effects are included in the equations, the latter as a linear function of latitude. Principal empirical elements in the experiment are the intensity of the heating, the value of the vertical stability, and the type of frictional dissipation. The flow patterns which develop are quite realistic, including a jet and zonal surface westerlies in middle latitudes, and the growth of a large disturbance. The associated energy transformations are investigated, and demonstrate the important role of the disturbance in the development of the zonal currents. The meridional circulation is also studied, together with its contribution to the zonal momentum budgets of the lower and upper halves of the atmosphere. Truncation errors eventually put an end to the forecast by producing a large fictitious increase in energy.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Available potential energy and the maintenance of the general circulation.
Lorenz, E. N. (1955) · Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography · doi:10.3402/tellusa.v7i2.8796 · Cited by 1,227
Cited by
Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and Predictability
Kalnay, E. (2002) · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511802270 · Cited by 3,391
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Large-Scale Circulation
Vallis, G. K. (2017) · doi:10.1017/9781107588417 · Cited by 1,891
Using weather data and climate model output in economic analyses of climate change
Auffhammer, M., Hsiang, S. M., Schlenker, W., & Sobel, A. (2013) · Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · doi:10.1093/reep/ret016 · Cited by 662
The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning
Hourdin, F., Mauritsen, T., Gettelman, A., Golaz, J.-C., Balaji, V., Duan, Q., Folini, D., Ji, D., Klocke, D., Qian, Y., et al. (2017) · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · doi:10.1175/bams-d-15-00135.1 · Cited by 611
DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains
Stevens, B., Satoh, M., Auger, L., Biercamp, J., Bretherton, C. S., Chen, X., Düben, P., Judt, F., Khairoutdinov, M., Klocke, D., et al. (2019) · Progress in Earth and Planetary Science · doi:10.1186/s40645-019-0304-z · Cited by 586
Metadata
- Authors
- Phillips, N. A.
- Venue
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1956-04
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 352
- Pages
- 123-164
- ISSN
- 0035-9009 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-870X
- OpenAlex
- W2102256082
- Cited by
- 662
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 22.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The general circulation of the atmosphere: A numerical experiment. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/qj.49708235202
- The paper
- Phillips, N. A. (1956). The general circulation of the atmosphere: A numerical experiment. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.49708235202
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
