Global air–sea fluxes of heat, fresh water, and momentum: Energy budget closure and unanswered questions

L Yu - Annual review of marine science, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
The ocean interacts with the atmosphere via interfacial exchanges of momentum, heat (via
radiation and convection), and fresh water (via evaporation and precipitation). These fluxes …

On the increasing importance of air-sea exchanges in a thawing Arctic: A review

PC Taylor, BM Hegyi, RC Boeke, LN Boisvert - Atmosphere, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Forty years ago, climate scientists predicted the Arctic to be one of Earth's most sensitive
climate regions and thus extremely vulnerable to increased CO2. The rapid and …

Climate change and hurricane-like extratropical cyclones: Projections for North Atlantic polar lows and medicanes based on CMIP5 models

R Romero, K Emanuel - Journal of Climate, 2017‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A novel statistical–deterministic method is applied to generate thousands of synthetic tracks
of North Atlantic (NA) polar lows and Mediterranean hurricanes (“medicanes”); these …

A new refinement of Mediterranean tropical‐like cyclones characteristics

J Gutiérrez‐Fernández, MM Miglietta… - Geophysical …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Several warm‐core cyclones in the Mediterranean, which were analyzed in the literature,
are studied using ERA5 reanalysis, to identify the environment where they develop and …

Revisiting the 26.5 C sea surface temperature threshold for tropical cyclone development

R McTaggart-Cowan, EL Davies… - Bulletin of the …, 2015‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A high sea surface temperature is generally accepted to be one of the necessary ingredients
for tropical cyclone development, indicative of the potential for surface heat and moisture …

Recent advances in polar low research: Current knowledge, challenges and future perspectives

M Moreno-Ibáñez, R Laprise… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Polar lows (PLs) are high-latitude intense maritime mesoscale weather systems that develop
over open water near the sea ice margin or near snow-covered continents during cold air …

Development of polar lows in future climate scenarios over the Barents sea

T Lin, A Rutgersson, L Wu - Journal of Climate, 2024‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Polar lows (PLs) are intense mesoscale cyclones that form over polar oceans during colder
months. Characterized by high wind speeds and heavy precipitation, they profoundly impact …

Climatology of polar lows over the Sea of Japan using the JRA-55 reanalysis

W Yanase, H Niino, SI Watanabe, K Hodges… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Polar lows are intense meso-α-scale cyclones that develop over the oceans poleward of the
main baroclinic zone. A number of previous studies have reported polar low formation over …

RAS-NAAD: 40-yr High-Resolution North Atlantic atmospheric hindcast for multipurpose applications (new dataset for the regional mesoscale studies in the …

A Gavrikov, SK Gulev, M Markina… - Journal of Applied …, 2020‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
We present in this paper the results of the Russian Academy of Sciences North Atlantic
Atmospheric Downscaling (RAS-NAAD) project, which provides a 40-yr 3D hindcast of the …

Polar Lows–Moist Baroclinic Cyclones Develo** in Four Different Vertical Wind Shear Environments

PJ Stoll, T Spengler, A Terpstra… - Weather and Climate …, 2020‏ - wcd.copernicus.org
Polar lows are intense mesoscale cyclones that develop in polar marine air masses.
Motivated by the large variety in their proposed intensification mechanisms, cloud structure …