The July Arctic Front in North America from ECMWF ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Products

• Main Author: Ladd, Matthew Jared
• Other Authors: MSc
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Arctic front; North America; reanalysis; ERA-40; NCEP; air mass; Arctic; Canada; Soi; Ritchie; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19586

Boundaries between air masses, called frontal zones, have been associated with vegetation boundaries (Bryson, 1966; Hare and Ritchie, 1972). Using gridded climate reanalysis data, we analyze the air masses and frontal zones of North America. The position of the July Arctic front varies significantly...