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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 486807, 14 pages
Characteristics of Temperature and Humidity Inversions and Low-Level Jets over Svalbard Fjords in Spring
1Meteorological Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
2Department of Arctic Geophysics, The University Centre in Svalbard, 9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
3Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway
4Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
5Department of Physics, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia
6Tartu Observatory, 61602 Tõravere, Estonia
7Department of Geography, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia
8Research Unit Potsdam, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
Received 9 June 2011; Revised 7 December 2011; Accepted 13 December 2011
Academic Editor: Igor N. Esau
Copyright © 2011 Timo Vihma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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