The Atmospheric Circulation and Arctic Meteorology

Reviews advances since 1954 in knowledge of tropospheric and stratospheric circulations: in the former, the nature, distribution and effects of an arctic jet stream and arctic front; and in the stratosphere and mesosphere, the startling discovery of a powerful stratospheric ridge over or west of Ala...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Hare, F. Kenneth
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1969
Subjects:
Atmosphere
Botany
Ecology
Geology
Geophysics
Ionosphere
Meteorology
Oceanography
Research
Research organizations
Sea ice
Tundra ecology
Universities
Zoology
Barrow
Alaska
Arctic regions
Arctic Ocean
Arctic
polar night
Tundra
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66263
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Summary:Reviews advances since 1954 in knowledge of tropospheric and stratospheric circulations: in the former, the nature, distribution and effects of an arctic jet stream and arctic front; and in the stratosphere and mesosphere, the startling discovery of a powerful stratospheric ridge over or west of Alaska (No 63579), which deforms the stratospheric polar-night westerlies up to at least 55 km.

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