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Scale Analysis of Marine Winds in Straits and along Mountainous Coasts
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The complicated wind regimes in straits which develop in response to difFerent large-scale pressure fields are investigated by scale analysis of the equations of motion. Adjustment of the mass and motion fields in straits ...
Prediction of Vessel Icing for Near-Freezing Sea Temperatures
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The operational NOAA categorical vessel icing algorithm is evaluated with regard to advances in understanding of the icing process and forecasting experience. When sea temperatures are <2?3°C above the saltwater freezing ...
The Influence of Coastal Orography: The Yakutat Storm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An unforecast windstorm in the vicinity of Yakutat, Alaska, on 14 March 1979 illustrates the importance of ageostrophic dynamics within a coastal zone proximal to significant terrain. Large pressure rises [greater than 4 ...
Recent Extreme Arctic Temperatures are due to a Split Polar Vortex
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: here were extensive regions of Arctic temperature extremes in January and February 2016 that continued into April. For January, the Arctic-wide averaged temperature anomaly was 2.0°C above the previous record of 3.0°C based ...
Increased Variability in the Early Winter Subarctic North American Atmospheric Circulation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he last decade shows increased variability in the Arctic Oscillation (AO) index for December. Over eastern North America such increased variability depended on amplification of the climatological longwave atmospheric ...
Climate Lessons from the First International Polar Year*
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A unique glimpse of the Arctic from a period before the present era of climate warming is found in the records of the first International Polar Year (IPY) of 1882?83. Inspired by the Austrian scientist and explorer Carl ...