Arctic Atmospheric Rivers : Eulerian and Lagrangian features, and trends over the last 40 years

• Main Author: You, Cheng
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Meteorologiska institutionen (MISU) 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Atmospheric river; Stratocumulus; Blocking; Turbulence; Longwave irradiance; Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning; Barents Sea; East Siberian Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-198079

Arctic Atmospheric rivers, termed ‘warm-and-moist intrusion’ (WaMAI) in this thesis, transporting heat and moisture into the Arctic from lower latitudes, is a key contributor to the amplified warming in the Arctic under global change (Arctic Amplification). However, the warming effect of WaMAIs and...