Diagnosing high sinuosity regimes associated with anomalous Greenland ice-melt events using self-organizing maps

Sinuosity, a metric that describes the waviness of the circumpolar flow, is adapted to quantify modification of the tropospheric polar vortex within longitudinal sectors by localized incursions of warm, moist air from middle latitudes associated with Arctic cyclones (ACs). In this thesis, we identif...

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Main Author: El Riachy, Mansour
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Scholars Archive 2021
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic amplification
Greenland ice-melt
Self-organizing maps
Synoptic meteorology
Ice
Cyclones
Climatic changes
Atmospheric circulation
Atmospheric Sciences
Greenland
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/2676
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/context/legacy-etd/article/3675/viewcontent/El_Riachy_T6GXDcajcZdbc2UkXgEHMH.pdf
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Summary:Sinuosity, a metric that describes the waviness of the circumpolar flow, is adapted to quantify modification of the tropospheric polar vortex within longitudinal sectors by localized incursions of warm, moist air from middle latitudes associated with Arctic cyclones (ACs). In this thesis, we identify four corridors of high AC track frequency, on which we center 90° longitudinal sectors comprising the following regions: Pacific, West of Greenland, Atlantic, and Asian. Sectorial sinuosity is calculated for the West of Greenland sector and is used to quantify the amplitude of the 300-hPa flow associated with anomalous Greenland ice-melt events.

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