Tropical meteorology

In the past few years we have witnessed a tremendous expansion of the scope of tropical meteorology. Advances in satellite technology and numerical simulation of the global general circulation have made it impossible to maintain the isolation of this classical branch of meteorology from the rest of the atmospheric sciences. During the years 1971–1974 the data obtained by many pre‐Garp experiments became available for scientific analysis. The experiments include the Line Islands Experiment (Lie) in 1967, the Florida State University Barbados Experiment in 1968, the Atlantic Trade Wind Experiment (Atex) and the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (Bomex) in 1969, and the Venezuelan International Meteorological and Hydrological Experiment (Vimhex) in 1969 and 1972. The data from these experiments prompted especially studies of the structure of trade wind subcloud layer.