Climatic Conditions Around

• Main Author: M. Stein
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Climate; environment; Greenland; ice; salinity; temperature; water masses NAFO Sci. Coun. Studies; 22; 33–41; Nuuk; East Greenland; Egedesminde; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.542.5134; http://archive.nafo.int/open/studies/s22/stein.pdf

Air temperature anomalies and sea ice cover during 1992 around Greenland indicated that the early-1990s experienced similar anomalous cold environmental conditions to those experienced during the beginning of the 1970s and 1980s. Similar to the last decade, cold air masses in February centred around the town of Egedesminde area in West Greenland which contributed to the extreme cold conditions off West and South of Greenland in early-1992. In contrast to the west coast, the east coast of Greenland during 1992, under the regime of the anomalous cold air temperatures showed that the surface layer of the ocean cooled and sea ice formed to a larger extent than normal. The ice did not leave Cape Fare-well before mid-August and the next winter’s ice began forming off East Greenland early in October. Analysis of air temperature time-series from Nuuk/West Greenland revealed char-acteristic periods which contributed to the climatic variability in the area. Computer mod-els showed that low frequency climatic variation has a period of about 108 years.