i
Unusual West Arctic Storm Activity During Winter 2020: Another Collapse of the Beaufort High?
-
2021
-
-
Source: Geophysical Research Letters, 48(13)
Details:
-
Journal Title:Geophysical Research Letters
-
Personal Author:
-
NOAA Program & Office:
-
Description:Weather and sea ice forecasts provided in support of the U.S. Navy's Ice Exercise winter 2020 campaign in the Beaufort Sea noted frequent storms in the absence of the climatological Beaufort High which coincided with anomalous eastward drift of the region's ice cover. To place the 2020 Beaufort- Chukchi regional atmospheric conditions in historical context, we evaluated winter low sea-level pressure (SLP) extremes and storm characteristics in the region over the 1948–2020 period. March 2020 SLP in the Beaufort-Chukchi region was the lowest of the modern reanalysis era (1009.07 hPa) with record counts of passing storms and days with SLP at least two standard deviations below the climatological mean. The
-
Keywords:
-
Source:Geophysical Research Letters, 48(13)
-
DOI:
-
ISSN:0094-8276;1944-8007;
-
Format:
-
Publisher:
-
Document Type:
-
Rights Information:Other
-
Compliance:Library
-
Main Document Checksum:
-
Download URL:
-
File Type: