Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

JE Walsh, TJ Ballinger, ES Euskirchen, E Hanna… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The greatest impacts of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife and humans often arise from
extreme events rather than changes in climatic means. Northern high latitudes, including the …

Storminess over the North Atlantic and northwestern Europe—A review

F Feser, M Barcikowska, O Krueger… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review assesses storm studies over the North Atlantic and northwestern Europe
regarding the occurrence of potential long‐term trends. Based on a systematic review of …

A long-term climatology of medicanes

L Cavicchia, H von Storch, S Gualdi - Climate dynamics, 2014 - Springer
Medicanes, intense and destructive mesoscale cyclones exhibiting several similarities with
tropical hurricanes, are known to struck occasionally the Mediterranean Sea. Thanks to a …

Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming

M Zahn, H von Storch - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Every winter, the high-latitude oceans are struck by severe storms that are considerably
smaller than the weather-dominating synoptic depressions. Accompanied by strong winds …

Can polar lows be objectively identified and tracked in the ECMWF operational analysis and the ERA-Interim reanalysis?

G Zappa, L Shaffrey, K Hodges - Monthly Weather Review, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Polar lows are maritime mesocyclones associated with intense surface wind speeds and
oceanic heat fluxes at high latitudes. The ability of the Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA …

A long‐term climatology of North Atlantic polar lows

M Zahn, H von Storch - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A dynamical downscaling of the 6‐hourly 1948–2006 NCEP/NCAR re‐analyses for the
subarctic region of the North Atlantic has been used to derive a climatology of polar lows by …

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

W Yanase, H Niino, IW Shun-ichi, K Hodges… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Climatology of Polar Lows over the Sea of Japan Using the JRA-55 Reanalysis in: Journal of
Climate Volume 29 Issue 2 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo …

A global climatology of polar lows investigated for local differences and wind-shear environments

PJ Stoll - Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
Polar lows are intense mesoscale cyclones develo** in marine polar air masses. This
study presents a new global climatology of polar lows based on the ERA5 reanalysis for the …

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 …

A new classification scheme of European cyclone tracks with relevance to precipitation

M Hofstätter, B Chimani, A Lexer… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposes a new classification scheme of atmospheric cyclone tracks over
Europe. The cyclones are classified into nine types, based on the geographic regions, the …