Aircraft-based studies of katabatic winds and boundary layer structures over the NOW polynya near Greenland during summer

• Main Authors: Ernsdorf, Thomas, Heinemann, Günther, Drüe, Clemens
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Nares; Smith Sound; Ice Sheet; Nares strait; Sea ice; Smith sound
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26462/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26462/1/EGU2011-1650.pdf; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26462/2/EGU2011-1650_presentation.pdf; http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-1650.pdf

During June 2010, the aircraft based experiment IKAPOS was performed in northwestern Greenland. The main goals were studies of the summertime katabatic wind system and of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over the North Water Polynya (NOW). Katabatic winds play a key role in exchange processes of...