Greenland or Polar Front?

Abstract

No meteorologist could be less disposed than myself to underrate the importance of Greenland as a factor in determining the characteristic circulation over the North Atlantic Ocean, but I challenge the extravagant contention that cyclonic circulation, which is an integral part of the general circulation, depends entirely upon the “katabatic” operations of a relatively small and accidental feature in the configuration of the northern hemisphere like Greenland. To contend that the analogous Pacific centre of cyclonic activity, scarcely less intense than the Atlantic, is nourished by the same katabatic action of Greenland's ice-dome is surely out of the question.