The warming of arctic air masses over the eastern North Atlantic

• Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Main Author: Craddock, J. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1951
• Subjects: Arctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.49707733303; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fqj.49707733303; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.49707733303

Abstract Methods are described whereby 28 measurements were made of the rates at which cold air masses crossing the eastern North Atlantic were receiving heat and water vapour from the sea. It is shown that the rate of heat transfer is closely associated with the difference between the sea temperature and the surface temperature representative of the air mass, and some of the implications of this result are discussed.