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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-633-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-633-2024
Research article
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26 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2024

Life cycle dynamics of Greenland blocking from a potential vorticity perspective

Seraphine Hauser, Franziska Teubler, Michael Riemer, Peter Knippertz, and Christian M. Grams

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Blocking over Greenland has substantial impacts on the weather and climate in mid- and high latitudes. This study applies a quasi-Lagrangian thinking on the dynamics of Greenland blocking and reveals two pathways of anticyclonic anomalies linked to the block. Moist processes were found to play a dominant role in the formation and maintenance of blocking. This emphasizes the necessity of the correct representation of moist processes in weather and climate models to realistically depict blocking.
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