A parameterization of Greenland's tip jets suitable for ocean or coupled climate models

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Sproson, David A. J., Renfrew, Ian A., Heywood, Karen J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Greenland; Irminger Sea
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/20424/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/20424/1/sproson_etal_TJ_param_2009JC006002_JGR_2010.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC006002

Greenland's tip jets are low-level, high wind speed jets forced by an interaction of the synoptic-scale atmospheric flow and the steep, high orography of Greenland. These jets are thought to play an important role in both preconditioning for, and triggering of, open-ocean convection in the Irmi...