Correlated Increase of High Ocean Waves and Winds in the Ice-Free Waters of the Arctic Ocean
| Autor: | Scott Penrose, Jun Inoue, Takuji Waseda, Adrean Webb, Bill Penrose, Kazutoshi Sato, Alison L. Kohout |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Multidisciplinary
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences lcsh:R lcsh:Medicine Storm Beaufort scale 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Article Wind speed law.invention The arctic Oceanography Arctic law Wind wave Period (geology) Environmental science lcsh:Q lcsh:Science Significant wave height 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-018-22500-9 |
| Popis: | The long-term trend of extreme ocean waves in the emerging ice-free waters of the summer Arctic is studied using ERA-Interim wave reanalysis, with validation by two drifting wave buoys deployed in summer 2016. The 38-year-long reanalysis dataset reveals an increase in the expected largest significant wave height from 2.3 m to 3.1 m in the ice-free water from the Laptev to the Beaufort Seas during October. The trend is highly correlated with the expected increase in highest wind speed from 12.0 m/s to 14.2 m/s over the ice-free ocean, and less so with the extent of the ice-free water. Since the storms in this area did not strengthen throughout the analysis period, the increase in the expected largest significant wave height follows from the enhanced probability of storms in ice-free waters, which is pertinent to the estimation of extreme sea conditions along the Northern Sea Route. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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