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Several estimates of the rate at which the mean and eddy forms of both kinetic energy and available potential energy are generated, converted, and dissipated in the atmosphere are compared in tabular form. From these tables a selection is made of those values which are, in the author's opinion, representative for the yearly energy cycle in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Abraham H. Oort (1964) studied this question.
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