Variability of humidity conditions in the Arctic during the first International Polar Year, 1882-83
Of all the early instrumental data for the Arctic, the meteorological data gathered during the first International Polar Year, in 1882–83 (IPY-1), are the best in terms of coverage, quality and resolution. Research carried out during IPY-1 scientific expeditions brought a significant contribution to...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/3166 2024-09-09T19:18:46+00:00 Variability of humidity conditions in the Arctic during the first International Polar Year, 1882-83 Wyszyński, Przemysław Przybylak, Rajmund 2014-09-08 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip text/plain application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document application/vnd.ms-excel https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.23896 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/pdf_1 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/html https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/epub https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/xml https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/7669 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/7675 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/7676 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166/7677 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3166 doi:10.3402/polar.v33.23896 Polar Research; Vol 33 (2014) 1751-8369 Humidity conditions Arctic early instrumental period historical climatology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.23896 2024-06-20T23:33:17Z Of all the early instrumental data for the Arctic, the meteorological data gathered during the first International Polar Year, in 1882–83 (IPY-1), are the best in terms of coverage, quality and resolution. Research carried out during IPY-1 scientific expeditions brought a significant contribution to the development of hygrometry in polar regions at the end of the 19th century. The present paper gives a detailed analysis of a unique series of humidity measurements that were carried out during IPY-1 at hourly resolutions at nine meteorological stations, relatively evenly distributed in the High Arctic. It gives an overall view of the humidity conditions prevalent in the Arctic at that time. The results show that the spatial distribution of atmospheric water vapour pressure (e) and relative humidity (RH) in the Arctic during IPY-1 was similar to the present. In the annual course the highest values of e were noted in July and August, while the lowest occurred in the cold half of the year. In comparison to present-day conditions (1961–1990), the mean values of RH in the IPY-1 period (September 1882 to July 1883) were higher by 2.4–5.6%. Most of the changes observed between historical and modern RH values are not significant. The majority of historical daily RH values lie between a distance of less than two standard deviations from current long-term monthly means.To access the supplementary material for this article, please see Supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).Keywords: Humidity conditions; Arctic; early instrumental period; historical climatology(Published: 8 September 2014)Citation: Polar Research 2014, 33, 23896, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.23896 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic International Polar Year IPY Polar Research Polar Research Arctic Polar Research 33 1 23896 |
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Of all the early instrumental data for the Arctic, the meteorological data gathered during the first International Polar Year, in 1882–83 (IPY-1), are the best in terms of coverage, quality and resolution. Research carried out during IPY-1 scientific expeditions brought a significant contribution to the development of hygrometry in polar regions at the end of the 19th century. The present paper gives a detailed analysis of a unique series of humidity measurements that were carried out during IPY-1 at hourly resolutions at nine meteorological stations, relatively evenly distributed in the High Arctic. It gives an overall view of the humidity conditions prevalent in the Arctic at that time. The results show that the spatial distribution of atmospheric water vapour pressure (e) and relative humidity (RH) in the Arctic during IPY-1 was similar to the present. In the annual course the highest values of e were noted in July and August, while the lowest occurred in the cold half of the year. In comparison to present-day conditions (1961–1990), the mean values of RH in the IPY-1 period (September 1882 to July 1883) were higher by 2.4–5.6%. Most of the changes observed between historical and modern RH values are not significant. The majority of historical daily RH values lie between a distance of less than two standard deviations from current long-term monthly means.To access the supplementary material for this article, please see Supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).Keywords: Humidity conditions; Arctic; early instrumental period; historical climatology(Published: 8 September 2014)Citation: Polar Research 2014, 33, 23896, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.23896 |
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