Principal Investigator Timothy Cronin
Working with Eli Tziperman on the sensitivity of Arctic air formation to climate. The process of Arctic air formation is that by which high-latitude maritime air is transformed, by radiative cooling, into high-latitude continental air, which is much colder at the surface and often has temperature inversions. We submitted a paper based on idealized single-column modeling, in June 2015, suggesting that this process is highly sensitive to the ocean temperature at high latitudes, with warmer initial air masses cooling much less rapidly.