Abstract
This paper is a summary of an article now under preparation for the United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1941, in which an attempt is made to present, in non‐technical language, a modern picture of the general circulation of the atmosphere. The final model is synthesized through a series of successive steps by means of which the controlling factors are incorporated, one at a time.It is first shown that on a non‐rotating Earth, subjected to uniform insolation, a sharp boundary between troposphere and stratosphere must develop as a result of the convective instability of the vertical temperature‐distribution characteristic of radiative equilibrium. In such an atmosphere, only irregular convective circulations develop. Concentration of insolation in equatorial regions leads to development of apurely meridional circulation with a reduction of lapse‐rates and suppression of convection in high latitudes.
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