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The diurnal temperature variation during the polar night
Author(s) -
Hisdal V.
Publication year - 1960
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.49708636711
Subject(s) - diurnal temperature variation , variation (astronomy) , polar , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , climatology , geology , physics , astrophysics , astronomy
It is well known that if special types of days are considered separately, systematic diurnal temperature variations may be found to exist at polar stations even during the dark season. In the present paper it is shown that, in all probability, this phenomenon is of trivial nature and that a perfectly simple explanation of its origin is possible.