On the Maintenance of the Subtropical Anticyclones

Abstract

It is believed by the Central-European School that “Glashauswirkung” of water vapour is the primary cause of pressure gradient prevailing in the atmosphere. Such a problem is numerically treated here, the main attention being devoted to the maintenance of energy of anticyclones in horse latitudes. The deepening of the anticyclone due to “Glashausabkülung” of water vapour is at most of the order 0.48×10⁶ ergs sec^-1m^-2 in energy while the energy dissipation amounts to 0.76×10⁷ ergs sec^-1m^-2 at least. Thus the theo_??_y by the above school is partly rejected here.