The synoptic climatology of polar low outbreaks

Steven Businger

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v37i5.11686

The synoptic climatology of polar low outbreaks

Tellus

Volume 37 (1985): Issue 5

By: Steven Businger

Open Access

|Jan 1985

Bosart , L. F . 1981 . The presidents' day storm of 18-19 February 1979; a sub-synoptic scale event . Mon. Wea. Rev . 109 , 1542 – 1566 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Brown , R. A . 1980 . Longitudinal instabilities and secondary flows in the planetary boundary layer: a review . Rev. of Geophys. and Space Phys . 18 , 683 – 697 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Ernst , J. A. and Matson , M . 1983 . A Mediterranean tropical storm? Weather 38 , 332 – 337 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Fedor , L. S . 1984 . Forecasting of polar lows. Proceedings: Nowcasting II Symposium. Sept. 3-7, Norrkoping, Sweden , 47 – 52 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Forbes , G. S. and Lottes , W. D . 1982 . Characteristics and evolution of mesoscale cloud vortices occurring in polar air streams. Volume of extended abstracts: Conference on Cloud Physics, Nov. 15-18, 1982, Chicago, Ill. Amer. Meteor. Soc ., 310 – 313 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hoskins , B. J. and Karoly , D. J . 1981 . The steady linear response of a spherical atmosphere to thermal and orrographic forcing . J. Atmos. Sci. 38 , 1179 – 1196 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Jager , G . 1983 . Satellite indicators of rapid cyclogenesis . Mariners Wea. Log . 28 , 1 – 6 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Locatelli , J. D. , Hobbs , P. V. and Werth , J. A . 1982 . Mesoscale structures of vortices in polar air streams . Mon. Wea. Rev . 110 , 1417 – 1433 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Mayengon , R . 1983 . Warm core cyclones in the Mediterranean . Mariners Wea. Log . 28 , 6 – 9 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Mullen , S. L . 1979 . An investigation of small synoptic scale cyclones in polar airstreams . Mon. Wea. Rev . 107 , 1636 – 1647 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Mullen , S. L . 1983 . Explosive cyclogenesis associated with cyclones in polar airstreams . Mon. Wea. Rev . 111 , 1537 – 1553 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Panofsky , H. A. and Brier , W. G . 1965 . Some applications of statistics to meteorology. The Pennsylvania State University , 224 pp.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rasmussen , E . 1979 . The polar low as an extratropical CISK disturbance . Quart. J. Meteor. Soc . 105 , 531 – 549 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rasmussen , E . 1981 . An investigation of a polar low with a spiral cloud structure . J. A tmos. Sci . 38 , 1785 – 1792 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rasmussen , E . 1983 . A review of mesoscale disturbances in cold air masses . In Mesoscale Meteorology—Theories, Observations and Models . Edited by D. K. Lilly and T. Gal-Chen . Reidel Publishing Co. 247 – 283 , 781 pp .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rasmussen. E . 1985 . A case study of a polar low development over the Barents Sea . Tellus, Polar Low Special Issue : 37A , 407 – 418 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rabbe , A . 1975 . Arctic instability lows . Meteorologiske A nnaler 6 , 303 – 329 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Reed , R. J . 1979 . Cyclogenesis in polar airstreams . Mon. Wea. Rev . 107 38 – 52 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Sanders , F. and Gyakum , J. R . 1980 . Synoptic-dynamic climatology of the “bomb” . Mon. Wea. Rev . 108 , 1589 – 1606 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Sutcliffe , R. C . 1947 . A contribution to the problem of development . Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc . 73 , 370 – 383 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Uccellni , L. F. , Kocin , P. J. and Wash , C. H . 1981 . The presidents' day cyclone 17-19 February 1979: an analysis of jet streak interactions prior to cyclogenesis. NA SA Tech. Memo. 82077, 59 pp. INTIS N81-206581 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Wilhelmsen , K . 1981 . The polar low near the Norwegian coast . Technical Report No. 55 , Det Norske Meteoro-logiske Institutt , 33 pp.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article