Abstract
The 1960s was a remarkable decade for research in tropical meteorology. Tropical climatology was already reasonably understood, but little was known of its variability or that of daily tropical weather. Regularly sampled data and access to computers to process data became more readily available. The excitement of looking at these data, which no one else had studied before, must have been something like that of polar explorers in the early part of the century who made their way to places no one had ever been before. The decade opened with descriptions of the remarkable Quasibiennial Oscillation (QBO) showing that neither the formally identified “Krakatoa Easterlies” nor the “Berson Westerlies” were steady features of the equatorial stratosphere (Ebdon, 1963). By the mid-1960s a theory taylored specifically to waves in the equatorial region was published, and soon after some of them were observed. These were, arguably, the first identifications of large-scale waves in the atmosphere predicted by theory. By the end of the decade the tropical atmosphere was a topic of research given similar attention to that of the mid-latitudes.
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Madden, R.A., Julian, P.R. (2005). Historical perspective. In: Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27250-X_1
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