Franz Josef Land. The western boundary
at 71
W excludes Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin, both associated with their own storm climate.
Baffin Bay is included in its entirety, since storm activity in that region is closely linked to that
over the western North Atlantic (Dacre & Gray, 2009). The eastern boundary at 55 E is chosen
to completely include the Barents Sea. This results in an area of 21,625,566
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