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Topics in Polar Low Forecasting

- Languages: English
- Publish Date: 2004-04-02
- Skill Level: 2
- Completion Time: 1.25 - 1.50 h
- Includes Audio: yes
- Required Plugins: Flash
- Topics:
  Winter Weather
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• Recognize the synoptic scale precursors of polar lows • Recognize the low-level surface features that are conducive to the development of polar lows • Recognize the development of a polar lows from observations. • Identify polar lows using satellite imagery • Understand the limitations of model initialization and output for polar low forecasting

Topics in Polar Low Forecasting, polar lows, cold air vortices, high latitude forecasting

July 2014: This module contains good conceptual material. The operational NWP models have changed since this 2004 publication and it's possible that may have some impact on the model representation of polar lows.

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