Stoll, Patrick; Spengler, Thomas; Terpstra, Annick; Graversen, Rune (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-15)
Polar lows are intense mesoscale cyclones that
develop in polar marine air masses. Motivated by the large
variety of their proposed intensification mechanisms, cloud
structure, and ambient sub-synoptic environment, we use
self-organising maps to classify polar lows. The method is
applied to 370 polar lows in the north-eastern Atlantic, which
were obtained by matching mesoscale cyclones from ...