Estimating the surface wind speed over drifting pack ice from surface weather charts |
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| Authors: | Uri Feldman Philip J Howarth John A Davies |
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| Institution: | 1. Research Directorate, Atmospheric Environment Service, Downsview, Ontario, Canada
2. Department of Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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| Abstract: | Routine surface wind speed data, vital for the study of drifting pack ice, are not available for the polar oceans. Over sea, it has been demonstrated by Hasse that estimates of surface wind speed may be obtained from the geostrophic wind speed using linear formulae. Comparing estimated with observed data for six sites in Canada, it is found that the formulae may also be applied to obtain estimates of surface wind speed over pack ice. |
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