Weather and Climate Dynamics
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Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-19-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-19-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 2, issue 1
Research article
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15 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 15 Jan 2021

Polar lows – moist-baroclinic cyclones developing in four different vertical wind shear environments

Patrick Johannes Stoll, Thomas Spengler, Annick Terpstra, and Rune Grand Graversen

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Polar lows are intense meso-scale cyclones occurring at high latitudes. The research community has not agreed on a conceptual model to describe polar-low development. Here, we apply self-organising maps to identify the typical ambient sub-synoptic environments of polar lows and find that they can be described as moist-baroclinic cyclones that develop in four different environments characterised by the vertical wind shear.
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