The Weather and Circulation of February 1966-Strong Blocking Over the Atlantic

• Main Author: Raymond A. Green
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Greenland; New Siberian Islands; Beaufort Sea; Davis Strait; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.2629; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/094/mwr-094-05-0345.pdf

Unusually strong blocking dominated the mean circulation of the Arctic, the Atlantic, and northern Eurasia this month (figs. 1, 2). The most outstanding feature of the blocking regime was a deep mean Low in the Atlantic, where the height anomaly at 700 mb. reached-720 ft., the largest negative depar...