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Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2239-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2239-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
Research article
 | 
03 May 2024
Research article |  | 03 May 2024

Understanding the drivers of near-surface winds in Adélie Land, East Antarctica

Cécile Davrinche, Anaïs Orsi, Cécile Agosta, Charles Amory, and Christoph Kittel

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2239-2024-supplement

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Understanding the drivers of winter surface winds intensity in Adelie land Cécile Davrinche, Cécile Agosta, Anaïs Orsi, Christoph Kittel, and Charles Amory https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8315142

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Understanding the drivers of winter surface winds intensity in Adelie land Cécile Davrinche, Cécile Agosta, Anaïs Orsi, Christoph Kittel, and Charles Amory https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8315142

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Coastal surface winds in Antarctica are amongst the strongest winds on Earth. They are either driven by the cooling of the surface air mass by the ice sheet (katabatic) or by large-scale pressure systems. Here we compute the relative contribution of these drivers. We find that seasonal variations in the wind speed come from the katabatic acceleration, but, at a 3-hourly timescale, none of the large-scale or katabatic accelerations can be considered as the main driver.
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