Wind regime changes on the shipping routes of the Russian seas at the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries
Journal: Vestnik Gosudarstvennogo universiteta morskogo i rechnogo flota imeni admirala S O Makarova
Year: 2025

This article aims to assess wind regime variations in the Russian seas and identify shipping and fishing areas where the frequency of dangerous winds showed statistically significant upward trends. The assessment is based on ERA-5 global atmospheric reanalysis data on hourly mean wind velocity from 1991–2020. The methodology employed standard statistical methods for data processing. The results of the assessment of increased storm risks across all Russian seas are summarized in a table. The stud