James R. Holton

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James R. Holton is affiliated with the following schools: Pennsylvania State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Washington, Harvard University

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James R. Holton

Earth Sciences

#305

World Rank

#590

Historical Rank

#126

USA Rank

Meteorology

#39

World Rank

#65

Historical Rank

#23

USA Rank

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James R. Holton's Degrees

PhD Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
Masters Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
Bachelors Physics University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, James Reed Holton was a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. He was a specialist on atmospheric dynamics, and the author of the atmospheric science textbook An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology.

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James R. Holton's Published Works

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Published Works

An introduction to dynamic meteorology (2004) (4907)
Stratosphere‐troposphere exchange (1995) (2234)
Geophysical fluid dynamics. (1983) (2126)
The quasi‐biennial oscillation (2001) (1671)
The Influence of the Equatorial Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the Global Circulation at 50 mb (1980) (921)
International Geophysics Series (1992) (758)
An atmospheric tape recorder: The imprint of tropical tropopause temperatures on stratospheric water vapor (1996) (744)
The Role of Gravity Wave Induced Drag and Diffusion in the Momentum Budget of the Mesosphere (1982) (638)
The Influence of Gravity Wave Breaking on the General Circulation of the Middle Atmosphere (1983) (621)
An Updated Theory for the Quasi-Biennial Cycle of the Tropical Stratosphere (1972) (615)
A Theory of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (1968) (609)
Chapter 12 – Middle Atmosphere Dynamics (2013) (457)
Horizontal transport and the dehydration of the stratosphere (2001) (387)
Can ozone depletion and global warming interact to produce rapid climate change? (2000) (352)
The dynamic meteorology of the stratosphere and mesosphere (1975) (351)
Seasonal variation of mass transport across the tropopause (1996) (344)
The general circulation of the tropical atmosphere and interactions with extratropical latitudes (1972) (325)
The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the Northern Hemisphere Lower Stratosphere (1982) (319)
The diurnal boundary layer wind oscillation above sloping terrain (1967) (306)
Numerical simulations of convectively generated stratospheric gravity waves (1992) (297)
On the cause of the annual cycle in tropical lower-stratospheric temperatures (1994) (297)
Cross-Equatorial Response to Middle-Latitude Forcing in a Zonally Varying Basic State (1982) (295)
Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences (2002) (292)
Stratospheric Vacillation Cycles (1976) (290)
The heat balance of the tropical tropopause, cirrus, and stratospheric dehydration (2001) (274)
The Gravity Wave Response above Deep Convection in a Squall Line Simulation. (1995) (263)
Estimates of the stratospheric residual circulation using the downward control principle (1993) (210)
On the Global Exchange of Mass between the Stratosphere and Troposphere (1990) (210)
A Numerical Study of Three-Dimensional Gravity Waves Triggered by Deep Tropical Convection and Their Role in the Dynamics of the QBO (2000) (205)
A numerical model of the zonal mean circulation of the middle atmosphere (1980) (154)
A Model Study of Zonal Forcing in the Equatorial Stratosphere by Convectively Induced Gravity Waves (1997) (144)
A Method of Specifying the Gravity Wave Spectrum above Convection Based on Latent Heating Properties and Background Wind (2004) (133)
Seasonal Variations of Water Vapor in the Tropical Lower Stratosphere (1995) (115)
Waves in the Equatorial Stratosphere Generated by Tropospheric Heat Sources (1972) (110)
On Boundary Layer Dynamics and the ITCZ (1971) (109)
The Role of Monsoon Convection in the Dehydration of the Lower Tropical Stratosphere (1995) (108)
Climatology of the stratospheric polar vortex and planetary wave breaking (1988) (105)
A Semi-Spectral Numerical Model for Wave-Mean Flow Interactions in the Stratosphere: Application to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (1976) (104)
Effects of Tropospheric Wind Shear on the Spectrum of Convectively Generated Gravity Waves (2002) (101)
Mass fluxes of O3, CH4, N2O and CF2Cl2 in the lower stratosphere calculated from observational data (1997) (91)
A dynamically based transport parameterization for one-dimensional photochemical models (1986) (89)
The Generation of Mesospheric Planetary Waves by Zonally Asymmetric Gravity Wave Breaking (1984) (85)
Isentropic Mass Exchange between the Tropics and Extratropics in the Stratosphere (1994) (79)
Cross-tropopause tracer transport in midlatitude convection (2005) (79)
Gravity waves in the mesosphere generated by tropospheric convention (1999) (77)
Evidence for short vertical wavelength Kelvin waves in the Department of Energy‐Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Nauru99 radiosonde data (2001) (76)
Meridional distribution of stratospheric trace constituents (1986) (75)
A NOTE ON “KELVIN” WAVES IN THE ATMOSPHERE1 (1968) (72)
The Role of Waves in the Transport Circulation of the Middle Atmosphere (2013) (71)
A Diagnostic Model for Equatorial Wave Disturbances: The Role of Vertical Shear of the Mean Zonal Wind (1971) (68)
An advective model for two‐dimensional transport of stratospheric trace species (1981) (68)
On the Vertical Scale of Gravity Waves Excited by Localized Thermal Forcing (2002) (67)
The influence of cross‐equatorial pressure gradients on the location of near‐equatorial convection (1999) (66)
A Further Study of Gravity Wave Induced Drag and Diffusion in the Mesosphere (1984) (64)
The Influence of the Equatorial QBO on Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (1991) (64)
The influence of Viscous Boundary Layers on Transient Motions in a Stratified Rotating Fluid. Part I (1965) (63)
Equatorial Kelvin waves: A UARS MLS view (1994) (61)
A Diagnostic Study of the Vorticity Balance at 200 mb in the Tropics During the Northern Summer (1972) (60)
Quasi‐horizontal transport and mixing in the Antarctic stratosphere (1994) (60)
The Dynamics of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (1980) (58)
An analysis of the structure and forcing of the equatorial semiannual oscillation in zonal wind (1998) (56)
Simulations of water vapor in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere (2000) (55)
The Influence of Viscous Boundary Layers on Transient Motions in a Stratified Rotating Fluid. Part II. (1965) (52)
Tracer lamination in the stratosphere: A global climatology (1997) (52)
Mean Fields Induced by Local Gravity-Wave Forcing in the Middle Atmosphere (1987) (51)
A Diagnostic Numerical Model of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (1968) (50)
On the spectrum of vertically propagating gravity waves generated by a transient heat source (2004) (47)
A One-dimensional Cumulus Model Including Pressure Perturbations1 (1973) (46)
Wave propagation and transport in the middle atmosphere (1980) (46)
Selected science highlights from the first 5 years of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) Program (1998) (44)
Simulation of the Pinatubo aerosol cloud in general circulation model (1991) (44)
The Role of Forced Planetary Waves in the Annual Cycle of the Zonal Mean Circulation of the Middle Atmosphere (1980) (43)
On the Frequency Distribution of Atmospheric Kelvin Waves. (1973) (42)
Intraseasonal Variations of Tropical Cold-Point Tropopause Temperatures (2002) (41)
Kelvin Waves and the quasi-biennial oscillation : An observational analysis (1998) (40)
The Origin of Temporal Variance in Long-Lived Trace Constituents in the Summer Stratosphere (1985) (38)
The Planetary Boundary Layer (2013) (38)
Variability in Total Ozone Associated with Baroclinic Waves (1991) (38)
The role of gravity wave generated advection and diffusion in transport of tracers in the mesosphere (1988) (37)
Transport circulation deduced from SAMS trace species data (1988) (34)
Forcing of secondary waves by breaking of gravity waves in the mesosphere (2002) (34)
Dynamics of the Middle Atmosphere (1984) (34)
Equatorial Kelvin wave variability during 1992 and 1993 (1995) (32)
Characteristics of stratosphere-troposphere exchange in a general circulation model (1994) (31)
Forcing of Mean Flows by Stationary Waves (1974) (30)
On the secondary meridional circulation associated with the quasi-biennial oscillation (2002) (29)
Equatorial wave-mean flow interaction - A numerical study of the role of latitudinal shear (1979) (29)
On the Role of Wave Transience and Dissipation in Stratospheric Mean Flow Vacillations (1978) (28)
Troposphere-Stratosphere Exchange of Trace Constituents: The Water Vapor Puzzle (1984) (27)
Influence of the Annual Cycle in Meridional Transport on the Quasi-biennial Oscillation in Total Ozone (1989) (27)
The Tropical Semiannual Oscillations in Temperature and Ozone as Observed by the MLS (1994) (24)
An alternative mechanism explaining the hygropause formation in tropical regions (2000) (22)
A New Look at Equatorial Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Models (1988) (22)
Research status and recommendations from the Alaska Workshop on gravity waves and turbulence in the middle atmosphere, Fairbanks, Alaska, 18-22 July 1983 (1984) (21)
The influence of mean wind shear on the propagation of Kelvin waves (1970) (21)
The atmospheric effects of stratospheric aircraft: A current consensus (1991) (21)
The Mean Zonal Flow Response to Rossby Wave and Gravity Wave Forcing in the Equatorial Lower Stratosphere: Relationship to the QBO (1991) (20)
The Structure of the Ageostrophic Wind Field in Baroclinic Waves (1991) (20)
An experimental study of forced barotropic rossby waves (1971) (20)
Transport of N2O in the stratosphere related to the equatorial semiannual oscillation (1991) (20)
The quasi-biennial oscillation in the Earth's atmosphere and its links to longer period variability (1994) (18)
A diagnostic study of eddy-mean flow interactions during FGGE SOP-1 (1985) (18)
A comparison of observed (Haloe) and modeled (CCM2) methane and stratospheric water vapor (1993) (17)
The Production of Temporal Variability in Trace Constituent Concentrations (1987) (16)
A Note on Forced Equatorial Waves1 (1970) (16)
Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange and its role in the budget of tropospheric ozone (1996) (15)
Photochemical damping of inertio-gravity waves (1986) (15)
On the influence of boundary layer friction on mixed Rossby-gravity waves (1975) (15)
A mechanistic model of the northern annular mode (2001) (15)
On the interpretation of geopotential height tendency equations (1993) (12)
A further study of the annual cycle of the zonal mean circulation in the middle atmosphere (1981) (11)
A Note on the Propagation of the Biennial Oscillation (1968) (11)
A note on the spin-up of a stratified fluid (1968) (8)
A Note on the Scale Analysis of Tropical Motions (1969) (7)
A model of stratospheric chemistry and transport on an isentropic surface (1990) (6)
Internal Gravity Wave-Mean Wind Interaction (1973) (6)
Global Transport Processes in the Atmosphere (1990) (6)
The Second Haurwitz Memorial Lecture: Stationary Planetary Waves (1993) (6)
DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY | Waves (2003) (6)
DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY | Overview (2003) (5)
Ice on venus: can it exist? (1968) (5)
A Stable Finite Difference Scheme for the Linearized Vorticity and Divergence Equation System (1967) (5)
Climate variability: Nonlinear aspects (2002) (5)
The General Circulation (2013) (5)
The Tropical Semiannual Oscillation (SAO) in Temperature and Ozone as Observed by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) (1994) (5)
A quasi-permeable barrier in the equatorial lower stratosphere (1995) (5)
On the Trapping of Unstable Baroclinic Waves (1974) (4)
Draft White Paper (2000) (4)
Convectively Generated Stratospheric Gravity Waves: The Role of Mean Wind Shear (1993) (4)
Atmospheric Oscillations: Linear Perturbation Theory (2013) (4)
Stratospheric water vapor in the NCAR CCM2 (1992) (3)
STRATOSPHERE–TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE | Global Aspects (2003) (3)
The NASA STE Project (1984) (3)
Middle atmosphere project. A semi-spectral numerical model for the large-scale stratospheric circulation (1979) (3)
Strat-trop exchange (1985) (3)
The Role of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in Stratospheric Dehydration (2003) (3)
Chapter 9 – Mesoscale Circulations (2013) (2)
An analysis of the structure and forcing semiannual oscillation in zonal wind (1998) (2)
Comments on “Frictional effects on thermally forced waves” (1977) (2)
Comments on “Movable CISK” (1974) (2)
Chapter 11 – Tropical Dynamics (2013) (2)
Tracer transport by planetary waves - A comparison of explicit and parameterized models (1985) (2)
Circulation, Vorticity, and Potential Vorticity (2013) (2)
The dynamics of large scale atmospheric motions (1983) (2)
Elementary Applications of the Basic Equations (2013) (2)
Basic Conservation Laws (2013) (2)
Atmospheric Dynamics: Fundamentals (1997) (1)
Wave-Mean-Flow Interactions (1997) (1)
Book reviewAtmospheric energetics: Jacques Van Mieghem, Oxford University Press, New York, 1973. 306 + ix pp. $24.00 U.S. (1974) (1)
Numerical Modeling and Prediction (2013) (1)
Limitations of a diagnostic of stratospheric tracer lamination (1999) (1)
Numerical Modelling of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere (1975) (1)
Stratospheric planetary waves (1980) (1)
The role of viscosity in stratified rotating fluids (1964) (0)
Baroclinic Instability in the Stratosphere (1975) (0)
The Development of Dynamical Models (1975) (0)
The intertropical convergence zone experiment: Background and summary (1979) (0)
The diurnal boundary layer wind oscillation above sloping terrain (1967) (0)
SUPPLEMENTARY FORMULA INDEX FOR MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY FOR 1954-1958 (1959) (0)
Excerpts from the paper: Research Status and Recommendation from the Alaska Workshop on Gravity Waves and Turbulence in the Middle Atmosphere, part 1.3A (1984) (0)
Holton receives 2000 Roger Revelle Medal (2001) (0)
SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS1 (1980) (0)
Chapter 7 – Baroclinic Development (2013) (0)
The tropical composition and climate coupling (2003) (0)
Forced Waves and Wave-Zonal Flow Interactions (1975) (0)
Quasi-geostrophic Analysis (2013) (0)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics . Adrian E. Gill. Academic Press, New York, 1982. xviii, 664 pp., illus. Cloth, $60; paper, $30. International Geophysics Series, vol. 30. (1983) (0)
Zonally Averaged Flow (1997) (0)
Wave dynamics and transport in the stratosphere (1985) (0)
A study of eddy-mean flow interactions using Eliassen-Palm diagnostics: FGGE SOP-1 data and the NASA GLAS general circulation model compared (1984) (0)
The Tropical Composition and Climate Coupling Experiment (2003) (0)
Tropical Forcing of the NAM in a Simple AGCM (2002) (0)
Introduction: The Observational Basis (1975) (0)
Influence of the “Tropical Pump” on Trace Constituents and Temperature (1997) (0)
Dynamics of the middle atmosphere : proceedings of a U.S.-Japan seminar, Honolulu, Hawaii, 8-12 November, 1982 (1984) (0)

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