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General Circulation

General Circulation is a large-scale, persistent pattern of atmospheric motion that redistributes heat and momentum across the globe, distinguishing itself from transient or localized atmospheric phenomena through its characteristic spatial and temporal coherence in the meridional and zonal directions.

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Atmospheric General Circulation

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GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS

Joseph Smagorinsky · Monthly Weather Review · 1963 · 13.8K citations

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Classification, Seasonality and Persistence of Low-Frequency Atmospheric Circulation Patterns

Anthony G. Barnston, Robert E. Livezey · Monthly Weather Review · 1987 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Annular Modes in the Extratropical Circulation. Part I: Month-to-Month Variability*

David W. J. Thompson, John M. Wallace · Journal of Climate · 2000 · 3.5K citations

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An oceanic general circulation model framed in hybrid isopycnic-Cartesian coordinates

Rainer Bleck · Ocean Modelling · 2002 · 1.4K citations

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Improved general circulation models of the Martian atmosphere from the surface to above 80 km

F. Forget, F. Hourdin, Richard Fournier et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1999 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. RG
    R. G. Roble

    NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

    22 publications · 4.7K citations

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  2. NL
    Ngar‐Cheung Lau

    NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

    20 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. IM
    Isaac M. Held

    NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

    18 publications · 4K citations

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  4. RA
    R. Alan Plumb

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    19 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. TS
    Tapio Schneider

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    17 publications · 1.6K citations

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Institutions

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  1. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    65 h-index

    275 publications

    37K citations

  2. NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    54 h-index

    133 publications

    13.7K citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    49 h-index

    98 publications

    21.1K citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    47 h-index

    99 publications

    9.1K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    44 h-index

    212 publications

    24.8K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    44 h-index

    133 publications

    11K citations

  7. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    43 h-index

    137 publications

    14.6K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    41 h-index

    95 publications

    9.3K citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    392 publications · 30.9K citations

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  2. Journal of Climate

    252 publications · 26.1K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 200 publications · 20.4K citations

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  4. Geophysical Research Letters

    165 publications · 12.8K citations

    60

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  5. Climate Dynamics

    109 publications · 8.2K citations

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