Synoptic environments and characteristics of cold air outbreaks in the Irminger Sea

• Published in: International Journal of Climatology
• Main Author: Papritz, Lukas
• Other Authors: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Denmark Strait; Fram Strait; Greenland; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4991; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjoc.4991; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/joc.4991

ABSTRACT Cold air outbreaks ( CAOs ) are the dominant cause of intense wintertime upward heat fluxes in the Irminger Sea. In this study, the climatological pathways of Irminger Sea CAO airmasses and the evolution of airmass properties, as well as the large‐scale synoptic environments leading to CAO...