Extreme Arctic cyclone in August 2016
Abstract An extremely strong Arctic cyclone (AC) developed in August 2016. The AC exhibited a minimum sea level pressure (SLP) of 967.2 hPa and covered the entire Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean on 16 August. At this time, the AC was comparable to the strong AC observed in August 2012, in terms o...
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crwiley:10.1002/asl.757 2024-06-23T07:49:12+00:00 Extreme Arctic cyclone in August 2016 Yamagami, Akio Matsueda, Mio Tanaka, Hiroshi L. Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) Project 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asl.757 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fasl.757 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asl.757 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Atmospheric Science Letters volume 18, issue 7, page 307-314 ISSN 1530-261X 1530-261X journal-article 2017 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.757 2024-06-06T04:21:36Z Abstract An extremely strong Arctic cyclone (AC) developed in August 2016. The AC exhibited a minimum sea level pressure (SLP) of 967.2 hPa and covered the entire Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean on 16 August. At this time, the AC was comparable to the strong AC observed in August 2012, in terms of horizontal extent, position, and intensity as measured by SLP. Two processes contributed to the explosive development of the AC: growth due to baroclinic instability, similar to extratropical cyclones, during the early phase of the development stage, and later nonlinear development via the merging of upper warm cores. The AC was maintained for more than 1 month through multiple mergings with cyclones both generated in the Arctic and migrating northward from lower latitudes, as a result of the high cyclone activity in summer 2016. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Wiley Online Library Arctic Arctic Ocean Pacific Atmospheric Science Letters 18 7 307 314 |
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Abstract An extremely strong Arctic cyclone (AC) developed in August 2016. The AC exhibited a minimum sea level pressure (SLP) of 967.2 hPa and covered the entire Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean on 16 August. At this time, the AC was comparable to the strong AC observed in August 2012, in terms of horizontal extent, position, and intensity as measured by SLP. Two processes contributed to the explosive development of the AC: growth due to baroclinic instability, similar to extratropical cyclones, during the early phase of the development stage, and later nonlinear development via the merging of upper warm cores. The AC was maintained for more than 1 month through multiple mergings with cyclones both generated in the Arctic and migrating northward from lower latitudes, as a result of the high cyclone activity in summer 2016. |
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