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Print Version - Table of Contents
- 1 Disturbances in Cold Air Masses
- 1.1 Development of Forcing
Mechanisms
- 1.2 Types of Disturbances
- 1.3 Development of a Polar Low
- 2 Climatology of Cold Air Vortices and Polar Lows
- 2.1 Reference Map and Seasonal
Ice Coverage
- 2.2 Regional Climatology: Pacific
and Canadian Waters
- 2.3 Regional Climatology: Atlantic
and European Waters
- 3 Monitoring and Nowcasting of Polar Lows
- 3.1 Nowcasting
- 3.2 Use of Satellite Imagery
- 4 Polar Lows and NWP
- 4.1 Factors Contributing to the Quality
of NWP
- 4.2 The Future of the Operational
Environment
- 5 Forecasting Process for Polar Lows
- 5.1 A Five-Step Forecast Process
Polar Low Forecasting
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