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Original Articles

The vertical variation of the wind through the friction-layer over the Greenland ice cap

Pages 13-16 | Received 16 Aug 1971, Published online: 15 Dec 2016
 

Abstract

The peculiar wind spirals observed at Station Centrale, Expeditions Polaires Françaises 1949–51, are explained by accounting for the effect of the thermal wind due to the presence of a strong surface inversion over sloped terrain.