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The Gulf of Alaska is the “graveyard” of storms in the North Pacific – these storms do not form locally and include tropical cyclones undergoing extra-tropical transitions, reaching the Gulf of Alaska, especially during summer and autumn.

A new study may lead to better forecasting of severe weather in polar regions. Cold air outbreaks over the ocean can be linked to large-scale weather patterns, and this leads the way to using new tools to forecast such events.

In a new study radioactive waste material from Sellafield and La Hague is used to shed light on ocean currents in the Nordic Seas, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean, and to test the performance of an ocean model in this region.

On the edges of the Arctic ice cover, in the marginal ice zones, melting rates of sea ice are reduced due to molecular effects on the interface between the ice and the ocean.

While most model studies of storminess in the current and future climate focus on the winter season when storms are stronger, this work addresses how storm track are represented in the summer using the Bergen Climate Model (BCM).

A new paper published in Climate Dynamics shows that the isolated effect of a reduced Arctic sea-ice cover will lead to weaker North Atlantic storminess in late winter.