Abstract
In the forty years that have passed since the time when Erik Palmen began his period of highest research productivity, the methods of general circulation research have changed drastically. Because of the technical aids that have become available through ever more sophisticated highspeed : computers and satellites, nonlinear models of various forms can now be run and tested for time periods often of great length and even involving varying climate conditions over the earth.
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Riehl, H. (1990). General Circulation Studies in Chicago from the 1940s into the 1950s. In: Newton, C.W., Holopainen, E.O. (eds) Extratropical Cyclones. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-944970-33-8_2
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