Unravelling the March 1972 northwest Greenland windstorm with high-resolution numerical simulations

• Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Tollinger, Mathias, Gohm, Alexander, Jonassen, Marius Opsanger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: cold-frontal inversion; downslope windstorm; gravity-wave breaking; rotors; Kelvin–Helmholtz instability; trapped lee waves; WRF model; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Thule Air Base; Baffin; Sea ice; Thule Air; Thule
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/21892; https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3627

Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland experienced an extreme windstorm during the night of 8/9 March 1972. The event is not among official WMO records because the anemometer broke after recording the highest gust of 93 m s−1. A recent study re‐examined the event based on coarse‐resolution reanalyses...