A global climatology of favourable conditions for polar lows

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 660, 2011, Pages 1749-1761

  Kolstad, Erik W ^a  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Meteorology

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; COLD-AIR OUTBREAKS; DATA SETS; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; HIGH LATITUDES; LABRADOR SEA; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR LOWS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL SCALE; STATIC STABILITY; TWO PARAMETER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; METEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 80055080298     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.888     Document Type: Article

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