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The warming of arctic air masses over the eastern North Atlantic
Author(s) -
Craddock J. M.
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49707733303
Subject(s) - environmental science , warm front , climatology , the arctic , arctic , lapse rate , air mass (solar energy) , air temperature , atmospheric sciences , oceanography , geology , physics , boundary layer , thermodynamics
Abstract Methods are described whereby 28 measurements were made of the rates at which cold air masses crossing the eastern North Atlantic were receiving heat and water vapour from the sea. It is shown that the rate of heat transfer is closely associated with the difference between the sea temperature and the surface temperature representative of the air mass, and some of the implications of this result are discussed.