A 'hurricane-like' polar low fuelled by sensible heat flux: High-resolution numerical simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1308-1324

  Føre, Ivan ^a   Kristjánsson, Jón Egill ^a   Kolstad, Erik W ^b,c   Bracegirdle, Thomas J ^d   Saetra, Øyvind ^e   Røsting, Bjørn ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Uni Research ASBergen   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air sea interactions; Numerical experiments; Polar lows; Upper level forcing

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; BARENTS SEA; BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINICITY; CASE-STUDIES; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; MOIST CONVECTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PEAK INTENSITY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POLAR LOWS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SENSIBLE AND LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SURFACE WIND SPEED; UPPER-LEVEL FORCING; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; SEA ICE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; VORTICITY; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 84864279885     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1876     Document Type: Article

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