We are very pleased to announce that an article looking into precipitation characteristics between 1979 to 2017 has just been published in the open-access EGU journal Weather and Climate Dynamics. This work was led by M.Sc. student Lilian Schuster, who did an amazing job analysing all the model runs.
Lagrangian detection of precipitation moisture sources for an arid region in northeast Greenland: relations to the North Atlantic Oscillation, sea ice cover, and temporal trends from 1979 to 2017
Short summary: Precipitation and moisture sources over an arid region in northeast Greenland are investigated from 1979 to 2017 by a Lagrangian moisture source diagnostic driven by reanalysis data. Dominant winter moisture sources are the North Atlantic above 45° N. In summer local and north Eurasian continental sources dominate. In positive phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation, evaporation and moisture transport from the Norwegian Sea are stronger, resulting in more precipitation.
Citation: Schuster, L., Maussion, F., Langhamer, L., and Moseley, G. E.: Lagrangian detection of precipitation moisture sources for an arid region in northeast Greenland: relations to the North Atlantic Oscillation, sea ice cover, and temporal trends from 1979 to 2017, Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 1–17, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-1-2021, 2021.
The paper is available to download freely from here.