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J. Holmboe

Norwegian meteorologist
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    meteorologists Jacob Bjerknes and Jørgen Holmboe and Swedish American meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Rossby—recognized that transient surface disturbances were accompanied by complementary wave features in the flow in the middle and higher atmospheric layers associated with the jet stream. These wave features are accompanied by regions of mass divergence and convergence…

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    meteorologists Jacob Bjerknes and Jørgen Holmboe and Swedish American meteorologist Carl-Gustaf Rossby—recognized that transient surface disturbances were accompanied by complementary wave features in the flow in the middle and higher atmospheric layers associated with the jet stream. These wave features are accompanied by regions of mass divergence and convergence…

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