Polar Lows Mesoscale Weather Systems in the Polar Regions [Paperback]

A high-level edited volume about the small, high-latitude weather systems known as polar lows.Polar Lows provides a comprehensive review of our understanding of the small, high latitude weather systems known as polar lows. The authors describe the climatological distribution of these depressions, the observational investigations into their structure, the operational forecasting of polar lows and the theoretical research into why they develop. They also discuss the experiments that have shown that some polar lows can be predicted a day or more in advance. This book will be of value to researchers in meteorology and climatology and professional weather forecasters concerned with polar regions.Polar Lows provides a comprehensive review of our understanding of the small, high latitude weather systems known as polar lows. The authors describe the climatological distribution of these depressions, the observational investigations into their structure, the operational forecasting of polar lows and the theoretical research into why they develop. They also discuss the experiments that have shown that some polar lows can be predicted a day or more in advance. This book will be of value to researchers in meteorology and climatology and professional weather forecasters concerned with polar regions.Providing a comprehensive review of our understanding of the small, high latitude weather systems known as polar lows, Erik Rasmussen and John Turner describe the climatological distribution of these depressions. They cover observational investigations into their structure, the operational forecasting of polar lows and the theoretical research into why they develop. They also discuss the experiments that reveal that some polar lows can be predicted. This book is of value to researchers and professional weather forecasters concerned with polar regions.Preface; 1. Introduction J. Turner, E. A. Rasmussen and A. M. Carleton; 2. Climatology E. A. Rasmussen, K. Ninomiya and A. M. Carleton; lc,