Wind in the Southern Hemisphere

Abstract

The two editions of “Upper Winds over the World,” by Brooks, Durst, Carruthers, Dewar and Sawyer (1950) and Heastie and Stephenson (1960), and the atlases by Dubentsov and Davidova (1964), Guterman (1967), van Loon, Taljaard, Jenne and Crutcher (1971), and Jenne, Crutcher, van Loon and Taljaard (1971) provide comprehensive descriptions of the wind in the Southern Hemisphere. Other studies of the wind on the scale of the hemisphere, but of smaller volume than those above, were made by Flohn (1950), Jenkinson (1955), Lamb (1959), Phillpot (1962), Obasi (1963) and van Loon (1964). There are regional studies of the Indian Ocean by Lockwood (1963) and Frost and Stephenson (1965); of the African region by Hofmeyr (1961, 1962); and of South America by Schwerdtfeger and Martin (1964). The outstanding observations of the upper winds at Kerguelen Island (49S, 70E) are described by Barbé, Dumas and Reininger (1967).

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