Newsletter 2001

POLAR LOW NEWSLETTER

September 2001

2. Reports of current and future polar low research

2.1 Numerical Simulations by the Eta Model in the Ross Sea region (Antarctica) (S. Morelli)

2.2 The influence of ice coverage on the cyclone development in the region of the Fram Strait (S. Dierer, H. Schlünzen)

2.3 In-Situ Measurements of a Polar Low over the Norwegian Sea during AAMP’98 (Y. Asuma et al.)

2.4 Detection of Polar Lows with Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (G.W.K. Moore, P.Vachon)

2.5 Influence of large scale disturbances on near surface winds in Adelie Land, East Antarctica (J. Naithani, G. Schayes)

2.6 A Three-Dimensional Temperature and Wind Analysis of a Polar Low Utilizing the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (R.Moore)

2.7 Satellite climatologic and typization of antarctic mesoscale vortices in comparison with Arctic (E.I. Loutsenko)

2.8 A similar initialization technique using derived doppler radar data for numerical simulations of mature tropical cyclones and polar lows (O. Nuissier, F. Roux)

2.9 The impact of polar mesocyclones on deep water formation (I.Renfrew, G.Bigg)

2.10 Interaction of katabatic winds and mesocyclones at the eastern coast of Greenland (T. Klein, G. Heinemann)

2.11 Simulations of topographically forced mesocyclones in the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea region of Antarctica (G. Heinemann, T. Klein)