The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones
Understanding the location and intensity of hazardous weather across the Arctic is important for assessing risks to infrastructure, shipping, and coastal communities. A key driver of these risks are the high winds, high ocean waves and heavy precipitation, which are dependent on the structure and de...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00061129 2023-05-15T14:32:51+02:00 The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones Vessey, Alexander F. Hodges, Kevin I. Shaffrey, Len C. Day, Jonathan J. 2022-05 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-351 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00061129 https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/egusphere-2022-351/egusphere-2022-351.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-351 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00061129 https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/egusphere-2022-351/egusphere-2022-351.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess CC-BY article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2022 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-351 2022-05-29T23:11:27Z Understanding the location and intensity of hazardous weather across the Arctic is important for assessing risks to infrastructure, shipping, and coastal communities. A key driver of these risks are the high winds, high ocean waves and heavy precipitation, which are dependent on the structure and development of intense synoptic-scale cyclones. This study aims to describe the typical lifetime, structure, and development of a large sample of past intense winter (DJF) and summer (JJA) synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones, using a storm compositing methodology applied to the ERA5 reanalysis. Results show that the composite development and structure of intense Arctic summer cyclones is different to that of intense winter Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean extra-tropical cyclones, and to that described in conceptual models of extra-tropical and Arctic cyclones. The composite structure of intense Arctic summer cyclones shows that they typically undergo a structural transition around the time of maximum intensity from having a baroclinic structure to an axi-symmetric cold-core structure throughout the troposphere, with a low-lying tropopause and large positive temperature anomaly in the lower stratosphere. Arctic summer cyclones are also found to have longer lifetimes than these other cyclones, potentially causing prolonged hazardous and disruptive weather conditions in the Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic North Atlantic Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Arctic |
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Understanding the location and intensity of hazardous weather across the Arctic is important for assessing risks to infrastructure, shipping, and coastal communities. A key driver of these risks are the high winds, high ocean waves and heavy precipitation, which are dependent on the structure and development of intense synoptic-scale cyclones. This study aims to describe the typical lifetime, structure, and development of a large sample of past intense winter (DJF) and summer (JJA) synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones, using a storm compositing methodology applied to the ERA5 reanalysis. Results show that the composite development and structure of intense Arctic summer cyclones is different to that of intense winter Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean extra-tropical cyclones, and to that described in conceptual models of extra-tropical and Arctic cyclones. The composite structure of intense Arctic summer cyclones shows that they typically undergo a structural transition around the time of maximum intensity from having a baroclinic structure to an axi-symmetric cold-core structure throughout the troposphere, with a low-lying tropopause and large positive temperature anomaly in the lower stratosphere. Arctic summer cyclones are also found to have longer lifetimes than these other cyclones, potentially causing prolonged hazardous and disruptive weather conditions in the Arctic. |
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Vessey, Alexander F. Hodges, Kevin I. Shaffrey, Len C. Day, Jonathan J. |
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The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones |
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The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones |
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The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones |
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The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones |
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The composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale Arctic cyclones |
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composite development and structure of intense synoptic-scale arctic cyclones |
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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-351 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00061129 https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/egusphere-2022-351/egusphere-2022-351.pdf |
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