Contents
Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

Vol. 34, No. 6, 1998

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from / Interperiodica Publishing (Russia).
Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics ISSN 0001-4338.

Predictability of Climatic Changes

V. P. Dymnikov p. 665  abstract

Atmospheric Circulation Systems in Transition Periods
as Structures in the Annual Cycle of Climate

G. P. Kurbatkin p. 675  abstract

Resonant Interactions of Internal Waves in Atmospheric Shear Flows
with the Participation of Marginally Unstable Modes

N. N. Romanova p. 685  abstract

New Models for Calculating Third-Order Moments in the Planetary Boundary Layer

B. B. Ilyushin and A. F. Kurbatskii p. 692  abstract

Calculation of the Height of Rising Convective Plumes
Generated by Thermal Sources of Increasing Intensity

K. B. Moiseenko p. 701  abstract

Forming Frontal Zones during Geostrophic Adjustment in a Continuously Stratified Fluid

M. V. Kalashnik p. 704  abstract

Inverse Problems of Atmospheric Optics

Yu. M. Timofeev p. 712  abstract

Estimation of Gravity Wave Parameters and Their Relations
to the Characteristics of the Lower Atmospheric Layer

N. L. Byzova, V. N. Ivanov, N. F. Mazurin, and A. V. Khokhlova p. 718  abstract

Solar Radiation Transfer in Inhomogeneous Stratiform Clouds

L. M. Romanova p. 726  abstract

Infrasound Amplification during Atmospheric Condensation

S. N. Netreba p. 734  abstract

Quasi-Linear Theory of Interactions between Internal Gravity Waves and Shear Flows

T. L. Erukhimova, M. D. Tokman, and V. Yu. Trakhtengerts p. 743  abstract

Formation of Cylindrical Eddies near the Bottom of a Decelerated Water Flow

D. A. Erechnev, D. I. Leont’ev, and O. N. Mel’nikova p. 751  abstract

Studying the Equations of the Quasi-Kinetic Approximation
for Nonlinear Gravity Waves in a Finite-Depth Water

V. G. Polnikov p. 757  abstract

Critique and Bibliography

Book Review W. Schröeder, Noctilucent Clouds (Leuchtende Nachtwolken),
Bremen: Science Edition, 1998, 339 pp. Theoretical Concepts and the Meaning of Observational Data p. 765

International Conference on Experimental Design and Inverse Problems of Optical Sounding
(To the Memory of V.P. Kozlov) (St. Petersburg, April 7–9, 1998) p. 767

Personalia

Valentin Pavlovich Dymnikov (on His 60th Birthday) p. 769

Author Index to Volume 34, 1998 p. 772