A comparison of two identification and tracking methods for polar lows

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Xia, By Lan ^a   Zahn, Matthias ^b   Hodges, Kevin I ^b   Feser, Frauke ^a   Storch, Hans Von ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclone; North atlantic; Polar lows; Spatial filter; Tracking algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLONE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POLAR METEOROLOGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STORM TRACK; TRANSFORM; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84865147463     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.17196     Document Type: Article

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