Greenland precipitation estimates from the atmospheric moisture budget
Abstract. Eight radiosonde stations urrounding Green-land at an average separation of 750 km are used to compute the atmospheric moisture budget. Radiosonde data were available from 1963-89, but were not used for 1963-79 due to insufficient data coverage which likely resulted in a major underestimat...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.670.6496 2023-05-15T16:27:14+02:00 Greenland precipitation estimates from the atmospheric moisture budget Frank M. Robasky David H. Bromwich The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.670.6496 http://polarmet.osu.edu/PMG_publications/robasky_bromwich_grl_1994.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.670.6496 http://polarmet.osu.edu/PMG_publications/robasky_bromwich_grl_1994.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://polarmet.osu.edu/PMG_publications/robasky_bromwich_grl_1994.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T17:21:01Z Abstract. Eight radiosonde stations urrounding Green-land at an average separation of 750 km are used to compute the atmospheric moisture budget. Radiosonde data were available from 1963-89, but were not used for 1963-79 due to insufficient data coverage which likely resulted in a major underestimation of large moisture inflow events. There is a mean annual inflow of moisture to the atmospheric volume over Greenland through its southeast and southwest sectors, and outflow to the northeast. Moisture convergences, equivalent to precipitateion minus evaporation, yield an areal average of 32 cm yr ' • of water equivalent; they also show high inter-and intra- annual agreement with earlier modeled precip-itation estimates found by the authors and serve as further confirmation of their modeling results. The time-averaged eddy component accounts [or 90 % of the total moisture convergence, reflecting the dominant contribution of precipitation from synoptic-scale cyclones. Text Greenland Unknown Greenland |
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Abstract. Eight radiosonde stations urrounding Green-land at an average separation of 750 km are used to compute the atmospheric moisture budget. Radiosonde data were available from 1963-89, but were not used for 1963-79 due to insufficient data coverage which likely resulted in a major underestimation of large moisture inflow events. There is a mean annual inflow of moisture to the atmospheric volume over Greenland through its southeast and southwest sectors, and outflow to the northeast. Moisture convergences, equivalent to precipitateion minus evaporation, yield an areal average of 32 cm yr ' • of water equivalent; they also show high inter-and intra- annual agreement with earlier modeled precip-itation estimates found by the authors and serve as further confirmation of their modeling results. The time-averaged eddy component accounts [or 90 % of the total moisture convergence, reflecting the dominant contribution of precipitation from synoptic-scale cyclones. |
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Greenland precipitation estimates from the atmospheric moisture budget |
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