Polar low climatology over the Nordic and Barents seas based on satellite passive microwave data

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Smirnova, Julia E., Golubkin, Pavel A., Bobylev, Leonid P., Zabolotskikh, Elizaveta, Chapron, Bertrand
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Geophysical Union 2015
• Subjects: polar lows; Nordic and Barents seas; satellite passive microwave data; SSMI; total atmospheric water vapor content; Barents Sea; North Cape; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00275/38639/37161.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063865; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00275/38639/

A new climatology of polar lows over the Nordic and Barents seas for 14 seasons (1995/1996-2008/2009) is presented. For the first time in climatological studies of polar lows an approach based on satellite passive microwave data was adopted for polar low identification. A total of 637 polar lows wer...