Przebieg roczny wilgotności względnej w Arktyce Norweskiej w okresie 1971-2000

The paper presents the analysis of the spatial variability of relative humidity in the Norwegian Arctic during the year (Fig.1, Table 2) for 6 meteorological stations (Table 1). We determined the frequency of relative humidity according intervals (Fig. 2) and examined its connection with atmospheric circulation indices (Table 3, Fig. 3). In the Norwegian Arctic 3 types of courses of the relative humidity have been distinguished on the basis of mean monthly values, amplitudes and occurrence frequency in distinguished intervals: 1) very wet - characterised by monthly and annual mean values of the relative humidity higher than 80%, small annual amplitudes up to 10%. This type includes the stations Bjornoya, Hopen i Jan Mayen. During the year at these stations very wet air dominates (236, 218 and 175 days, respectively). 2) wet - characterised by large annual amplitudes over 10%. Mean monthly values exceeding 80% occur only in summer and early autumn. This type occurs at the stations Hornsund and Ny-Alesund. At these stations wet air is the most frequent: 181 and 141 days during the year, respectively. 3) moderately wet - characterised by even level in every month below 80%, very small annual amplitude up to 5%. This type occurs at Svalbard Lufthavn where wet (171 days) and moderately dry (135 days) air is the most frequent.