Labrador Sea polar lows

Global Atmosphere and Ocean System

Volumn 4, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 275-333

  Rasmussen, Erik A ^c   Claud, Chantal ^a   Purdom, James F ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c Department of Geophysics ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baroclinic instability; Barotropic instability; Cloud lines; Heat fluxes; Instability of cloud lines; Labrador Sea polar lows; Numerical simulations; Polar lows; PV anomalies; Satellite data; Terrain effects; Upper level vortex

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; CYCLOGENESIS; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POLAR METEOROLOGY;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0030561874     PISSN: 10236732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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