A new climatology of favourable conditions for reverse-shear polar lows

Erik W. Kolstad

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00171.x

A new climatology of favourable conditions for reverse-shear polar lows

Tellus

Volume 58 (2006): Issue 3

By: Erik W. Kolstad

Open Access

|Jan 2006

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