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A climatology of wintertime low-level jets in Nares Strait

  • Intense, southward low-level winds are common in Nares Strait, between Ellesmere Island and northern Greenland. The steep topography along Nares Strait leads to channelling effects, resulting in an along-strait flow. This research study presents a 30-year climatology of the flow regime from simulations of the COSMO-CLM climate model. The simulations are available for the winter periods (November–April) 1987/88 to 2016/17, and thus, cover a period long enough to give robust long-term characteristics of Nares Strait. The horizontal resolution of 15 km is high enough to represent the complex terrain and the meteorological conditions realistically. The 30-year climatology shows that LLJs associated with gap flows are a climatological feature of Nares Strait. The maximum of the mean 10-m wind speed is around 12 m s-1 and is located at the southern exit of Smith Sound. The wind speed is strongly related to the pressure gradient. Single events reach wind speeds of 40 m s-1 in the daily mean. The LLJs are associated with gap flows within the narrowest parts of the strait under stably stratified conditions, with the main LLJ occurring at 100–250 m height. With increasing mountain Froude number, the LLJ wind speed and height increase. The frequency of strong wind events (>20 m s-1 in the daily mean) for the 10 m wind shows a strong interannual variability with an average of 15 events per winter. Channelled winds have a strong impact on the formation of the North Water polynya.

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Author:Svenja Kohnemann, Günther Heinemann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-18227
DOI:https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v40.3622
Parent Title (English):Polar Research
Publisher:Norwegian Polar Institute
Place of publication:Tromsø
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of completion:2021/04/19
Date of publication:2021/04/19
Publishing institution:Universität Trier
Contributing corporation:The publication was funded by the Open Access Fund of Universität Trier and the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Release Date:2022/03/15
Tag:Arctic; Greenland; North Water Polynya; atmospheric modelling; gap flow
GND Keyword:Atmosphärische Grenzschicht; Modellierung; Nares-Straße; Polynja; Strahlstrom
Volume (for the year ...):2021
Issue / no.:Band 40
Number of pages:16
Institutes:Fachbereich 6 / Raum- und Umweltwissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 91 Geografie, Reisen / 910 Geografie, Reisen
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz 4.0 International

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