Showing posts with label drift ice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drift ice. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Another Arctic cyclone brewing

Another cyclone is brewing in the Arctic. Below are Naval Research Laboratory projections of sea ice drift a few days ahead.

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The image below, from Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI), shows surface pressure over the Arctic Ocean on August 7, 2013.

from: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/weather/arcticweather.uk.php

Below are two projections of pressure and wind direction for August 11 and August 15, 2013.



edited screenshots from animation at weather-forecast.com
A further post with more details on this cyclone will be added soon.