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While it does not get nearly as much rain as the southeast of Alaska, it does get more snow, although days tend to be clearer there. It is a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) due to its short, cool summers. There are frequent, strong southeast winds known as the Knik wind in the vicinity of Palmer, especially in the winter months. [1]
Climate chart for Anchorage. Anchorage, Alaska (Dena'ina: Dgheyay Kaq'; Dgheyaytnu) [1] has a subarctic climate with the code Dsc according to the Köppen climate classification due to its short, cool summers. [2] The weather on any given day is very unpredictable.
The mean transport of the baroclinic current near Kodiak Island in the western gulf of Alaska is approximately 10 Sv in the upper 1500 m. [4] The Alaska Current, together with the Gulf of Alaska, has an impact on the climate system of the southwestern United States, including seasonal rainfall and snow.
Nov. 7—A major winter storm is forecast to bring snow, strong winds and rain to a large swath of Southcentral Alaska from Tuesday night into Thursday. Light snow was expected to begin in the ...
A wind atlas contains data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. [1] These data include maps , but also time series or frequency distributions . A climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meters) over even longer periods (30 years) but depending on the application there are variations in averaging ...
Constant pressure charts normally contain plotted values of temperature, humidity, wind, and the vertical height above sea level of the pressure surface. [29] They have a variety of uses. In the mountainous terrain of the western United States and Mexican Plateau, the 850 hPa pressure surface can be a more realistic depiction of the weather ...
In 1997 the World Climate Research Programme convened a meeting to determine the state of the art of climate research around the world. One of the principle conclusions of that meeting was that the global capacity to measure major climate variables such as temperature, rainfall, wind speed and direction, was inadequate to inform efforts to confront the emerging issue of climate change. [3]
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