Publications of GEIRMUNDUR ARNASON

I. Journal Articles
1942: Distribution of mass variations in atmospheric air columns. Meteorol. Annaler (Oslo), 1:10.
1945: The relation between the temperature lapse-rate in the lower half of the troposphere and some meteorological elements at ground level. Geograf. Annaler, 27.
1952: A baroclinic model of the atmosphere applicable to the problem of numerical weather prediction in three dimensions, Part I. Tellus, 4.
1953: A baroclinic model of the atmosphere applicable to the problem of numerical weather prediction in three dimensions, Part II. Tellus, 5.
1955: A two-parameter representation of the normal temperature distribution of the 1000-500 mb layer (with L. Vuorela). Tellus, 7.
1958: A convergent method for solving the balance equation. J. Meteor., 15:2.
1959: The effects of vertical vorticity advection and turning of the vortex tubes in hemispheric forecasts with a two-level model (with L. P. Carstensen). Mo. Wea. Rev., 87:4.
1961: A study of the dynamics of a stratified fluid in relation to atmospheric motions and physical weather prediction. Tellus, 13.
1962: Minimum-time ship routine (with G. J. Haltiner and H. D. Hamilton). J. Appl. Meteor., 1:1.
1962: Higher order geostrophic wind approximations (with G. J. Haltiner and M. J. Frawley). Mo. Wea. Rev., 90:5.
1963: The stability of nongeostrophic perturbations in a baroclinic zonal flow. Tellus, 15.
1964: The growth of incipient synoptic-scale disturbances in the tropics. Geofis. Internac., 4:3.
1967: A case study of the validity of finite difference approximations in solving dynamic stability problems (with P. S. Brown and E. A. Newburg). J. Atmos. Sci., 24:1.
1968: A numerical experiment in dry and moist convection including the rain stage (with R. S. Greenfield and E. A. Newburg). J. Atmos. Sci., 25:3.
1971: Growth of cloud droplets by condensation: A problem in computational stability (with P. S. Brown). J. Atmos. Sci., 28:1.
1971: "Estuary Modeling" in Man's Impact on Terrestrial and Oceanic Ecosystems (Editors - Mathew, Smith, and Goldberg). MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Article - pp. 429-447.
1971: "Proposal for Base-Line Sampling Program" (with Goldberg, Gross, Lowman and Reid) in Man's Impact on Terrestrial and Oceanic Ecosystems (Editors - Mathew, Smith, and Goldberg). MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Article - pp. 375-391.
1972: Micro- and macrostructures of numerically simulated convective clouds (with R. S. Greenfield). J. Atmos. Sci., 29:2.
1973: Efficient numerical integration of the equations governing droplet growth by condensation (with P. S. Brown). J. Atmos. Sci., 30:2.
1974: On the problem of multivalued pressure in the theory of convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 31:4.
1975: Case studies of frictional dissipation in numerically simulated clouds (with F. P. Richards). Geofis. Internac., 15:1.

II. Selected Reports
1955: A Case Study of the Fields of Large-Scale Vertical Velocity and Horizontal Divergence. M.I.T. Research on Atmospheric Pressure Changes, Tech. Report 16.
1955: Results of 24-hour Barotropic Forecasts for the 100-mb Pressure Surfaces. Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit, Tech. Memo 8.
1956: Convergence Rates of Liebmann's and Richardson's Iterative Methods when Applied to the Solution of a System of Helmholtz-Type Equations. Joint Numerical Weather
Prediction Unit, Tech. Memo 10.
1963: Large-Scale Physical Cloud Prediction: A Survey and an Appraisal (with J. P. Gerrity and A. Pavlowitz). Tech. Report 7045-45, The Travelers Research Center, Inc.
1963: Power-Spectral Analysis of Tropical Upper Winds (with E. A. Newburg and J. P. Pandolfo). Tech. Documentary Report 7045-75, The Travelers Research Center, Inc.
1964: Theoretical and Synoptic Studies of Low-Level Tropical Perturbations (with K. Hage, G. Howe, and P. S. Brown, Jr.). Final Report 7461-147, The Travelers Research Center, Inc.
1966: Studies of Techniques for the Analysis and Prediction of Temperature in the Ocean/Part IV: Numerical Flow Prediction with the Equivalent-Barotropic Model (with
J. Welsh). Tech. Report 7421-208, The Travelers Research Center, Inc.
1966: Particle Fallout and Dispersion in the Atmosphere (with K. Hage, P. S. Brown, Jr., and N. Bowne). Final Report 7228-218, The Travelers Research Center, Inc.
1967: Studies of Techniques for the Analysis and Prediction of Temperature in the Ocean/Part V: Numerical Prediction of Geostrophic Flow Derived from Sea-Surface Temperature (with J. Welsh). Tech. Report 7423-245, The Travelers Research Center, Inc.
1969: Numerical Simulation of the Macrophysical and Microphysical Processes of Moist Convection (with P. S. Brown, Jr., R. T. Chu, R. S. Greenfield). Final Report 7048-363, The Travelers Research Corp.

III.  Papers Presented at International Technical Meetings
1957: Report on research in numerical weather prediction at the Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit of the United States. International Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Stockholm, Sweden.
1960: A study of the dynamics of a stratified fluid in relation to atmospheric motions and physical weather prediction. International Symposium on Numerical Weather Prediction, Tokyo, Japan.
1963: Growth of incipient synoptic-scale disturbances in the tropics. Technical Conference on Hurricanes And Tropical Meteorology, Mexico City, Mexico.
1963: Stability of non-geostrophic perturbations in a baroclinic zonal flow. International Symposium on Numerical Weather Prediction, Oslo, Norway.
1965: Vertical structure of theoretical perturbation models simulating easterly disturbances. International Conference on Tropical Meteorology, Miami, Florida, USA
1966: The stability of baroclinic flow for positive and negative Richardson numbers. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, La Jolla, California, USA.
1966: Numerical prediction of the Gulf Stream by means of the equivalent barotropic model. Symposium on Mathematical Hydrodynamical Investigations of Physical Processes in the Sea, Moscow, USSR.
1967: Numerical prediction of geostrophic flow and sea-surface temperature. IAP0-Symposium on Hydrodynamical-Numerical Methods in Physical Oceanography, Berne, Switzerland.
1968: A numerical experiment in dry and moist convection including the rain stage. International Conference on Cloud Physics, Toronto, Canada.
1968: Numerical simulation of the microphysical and microphysical processes of moist convection. International Symposium on Numerical Weather Prediction, Tokyo, Japan.
1970: Growth of cloud droplets by condensation: A problem in computational stability. International Conference on Meteorology, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1972: Work on numerically simulated interactions between microphysical and microphysical convectioe processes. International Conference on Cloud Physics, London, England.
1977: Implicit analytic solutions to a simplified form of the equations of hydrodynamics (invited paper). International Conference on the Meteorology of the Arid Zone, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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