Southern Ocean mesocyclones and polar lows from manually tracked satellite mosaics

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Verezemskaya, Polina, Tilinina, Natalia, Gulev, Sergey, Renfrew, Ian A., Lazzara, Matthew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Bellingshausen Sea; East Antarctica; Rasmussen; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64180/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/64180/7/Published_manuscript.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074053

A new reference dataset of mesocyclone activity over the Southern Ocean has been developed from the manual analysis of high resolution infrared satellite mosaics for winter 2004. Of the total 1735 mesocyclones which were identified and analyzed about three quarters were classified as being ‘polar lo...