RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CLASSES OF LOCAL WEATHER IN THE ARCTIC

The radiant energy of the sun is of very great importance in shaping local weather. Therefore in the description of climate in terms of classes of weather it is necessary to take into account not only radiation data for considerable intervals of time (for the month or year) but also the day-to-day c...

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Main Author: Suzyumova,G. N.
Other Authors: DEFENCE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SERVICE OTTAWA (ONTARIO)
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1970
Subjects:
Meteorology
(*WEATHER FORECASTING
SOLAR RADIATION)
(*SOLAR RADIATION
ARCTIC REGIONS)
SCATTERING
ICE ISLANDS
STATISTICAL DATA
BRIGHTNESS
FREEZING
ARCTIC OCEAN
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Pacific
Arctic Basin
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Summary:The radiant energy of the sun is of very great importance in shaping local weather. Therefore in the description of climate in terms of classes of weather it is necessary to take into account not only radiation data for considerable intervals of time (for the month or year) but also the day-to-day characterization. For purposes of this study we divided the Arctic Basin (North Polar Sea) into two regions, the first region taking in the polar area down to the 85th parallel, and the second region the eastern part of the Central Arctic Basin adjacent to the Pacific Ocean sector of the Arctic, between 85N and 75N. From the available observations for each class of weather we calculated the mean monthly values of the total and scattered radiations, and determined generalized characteristic values for the three-month period May to July, since within this period the radiation characteristics do not change very much from month to month. (Author) Trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Izvestiya. Seriya Geograficheskaya, n4 p136-138 1969, by E. R. Hope.

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