Buoy observations from the windiest location in the world ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland

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Atmospheric Processes: Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions (0312, 4504), Atmospheric Processes: Boundary Layer Processes, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Air/Sea Constituent Fluxes (3339, 4504), Atmospheric Processes: Polar Meteorology, Oceanography: General: Marine Meteorology

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Cape Farewell, Greenland's southernmost point, is a region of significant interest in the meteorological and oceanographic communities in that atmospheric flow distortion associated with the high topography of the region leads to a number of high wind speed jets. The resulting large air-sea fluxes of momentum and buoyancy have a dramatic impact on the region's weather and ocean circulation. Here the first in-situ observations of the surface meteorology in the region, collected from an instrumented buoy, are presented. The buoy wind speeds are compared to 10 m wind speeds from the QuikSCAT satellite and the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR). We show that the QuikSCAT retrievals have a high wind speed bias that is absent from the NARR winds. The spatial characteristics of the high wind speed events are also presented.

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