Extreme warm events in the South Orkney Islands, Southern Ocean: Compounding influence of atmospheric rivers and föhn conditions

• Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Lu, Hua, Orr, Andrew, King, John C., Phillips, Tony, Gilbert, Ella, Colwell, Steve R., Bracegirdle, Thomas J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Coronation Island; Drake Passage; Orcadas; Pacific; Signy Station; South Orkney Islands; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535839/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535839/1/Quart%20J%20Royal%20Meteoro%20Soc%20-%202023%20-%20Lu%20-%20Extreme%20warm%20events%20in%20the%20South%20Orkney%20Islands%20%20Southern%20Ocean%20%20Compounding.pdf; https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.4578

Extreme warm events in the South Orkney Islands (SOIs) are investigated using synoptic observations from Signy and Orcadas stations for 1947-1994 and 1956-2019, respectively. Defining the extremes as temperatures exceeding the 95th percentile of the temperature distribution, we reveal the characteri...