Polar low
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 Polar low over the Barents Sea on February 27, 1987 |
A polar low is a small-scale, short-lived atmospheric low pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The systems usually have a horizontal length scale of less than and exist for no more than a couple of days. They are part of the larger class of mesoscale weather systems. Polar lows can be difficult to detect using conventional weather reports and are a hazard to high-latitude operations, such as shipping and gas and oil platforms. Polar lows have been referred to by many other terms, such as polar mesoscale vortex, Arctic hurricane, Arctic low, and cold air depression. Today the term is usually reserved for the more vigorous systems that have near-surface winds of at least 17 m/s (38 mph).
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- Related: Polar vortex
| European Polar Lows Working Group European Polar Lows Working Group www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/GHeinemann/eplwg/eplwg.htm - Web |
| NSIDC NSIDC nsidc.org/arcticmet/patterns/polar.low.html - Web |
| Understanding Polar Lows - BBC Weather A-Z Understanding Polar Lows - BBC Weather A-Z www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/az/alphabet47.shtml - Web |
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| Polar Low Forecasting Polar Low Forecasting meted.ucar.edu/norlat/snow/polarlows/3.2_sat.htm - Web |
