The vertical variation of the wind through the friction-layer over the Greenland ice cap

W. Schwerdtfeger

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v24i1.10615

The vertical variation of the wind through the friction-layer over the Greenland ice cap

Tellus

Volume 24 (1972): Issue 1

By: W. Schwerdtfeger

Open Access

|Jan 1972

Abstract

The peculiar wind spirals observed at Station Centrale, Expeditions Polaires Françaises 1949–51, are explained by accounting for the effect of the thermal wind due to the presence of a strong surface inversion over sloped terrain.

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