This paper is also part of the supplementary material for the GEFD Summer School.

Listed below are viewable (postscript and gif) files containing the text and some separate figures for this paper. The files live in Michael McIntyre's anonymous ftp directory and have names beginning `polarcool', after the `polar cooling thought-experiment' described in section 6, page 14.

• Abstract (HTML)

• Text (pdf) - 0.6Mb

• Text (ps.gz) - 0.3Mb

• Figure 1 (gif) - 22 kb

• Figure 2 (gif) - 13 kb

• Figure 3 (gif) - 19 kb

• Figure 4 (gif) - 13 kb

• Figures 5-6 (gif) - 15 kb. (Downward control principle. More recent discussions can be found in the review article on stratosphere-troposphere exchange and in a note to J. Atmos. Sci.)

• Figure 7 (gif) - 10 kb

• Figure 8 (gif) - 7 kb

• Figure 9 (gif) - 160 kb

• Figure 10 (gif) - 212 kb

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