Abstract
The number and location of stagnation days within the eastern United States, as estimated mainly from a surface geostrophic-wind criterion, me presented by month and for the year 1983 as a whole. The distribution of stagnation days in 1983 was quite typical of the 40-year mean, with the number of such days failing halfway between the relatively high number observed in 1981 and the relatively low number observed in 1982. A diagram shows the variation of “grid-point days” of stagnation with latitude and longitude for 1981–1983.
