Аннотация:Results are described for the long-term variability of daily wind speed extremes in the open part of the Barents and Cara seas for 1950-2012. It is shown that despite the pronounced climate changes in Arctic slight increasing of wind speed maximum can be seen since 1970th. Some features are revealed of long-term periodicity of wind extremes as well as of their daily changes. According to results, parameters of the wind probability distribution function did not change significantly dur-ing last decades. Analysis of the extreme wind direction have shown that over open parts of the Barents and Cara seas wind speed maxima observed with southern (from the south) winds, for Bar-ents Sea also with the westerlies.
Key words: Arctic, wind speed extremes, climate changes