New Book Published:
Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather Systems in the Polar Regions
Edited by Erik A. Rasmussen, John Turner
For more information see:
http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521624304
A new book has recently been published on 'Polar lows', the small-scale
but often very active weather systems that are found over parts of the
high latitude ocean areas.
Details can be found at:
http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521624304
Polar Lows provides a comprehensive review of our understanding of the
small, high latitude weather systems known as polar lows. These
often-vigorous depressions are a hazard to maritime operations and high
latitude communities, yet have only been investigated in detail since
the 1960s. In this volume the authors describe the climatological
distribution of these lows, the observational investigations into their
structure, the operational forecasting of polar lows and the theoretical
research into why they develop. They also discuss the experiments
carried out with high resolution numerical weather forecast models that
have shown that some polar lows can be predicted a day or more in
advance. The book has been written by a number of experts within the
field and has been carefully edited to form an integrated, cohesive
volume. It will be of value to researchers in meteorology and
climatology, as well as professional weather forecasters concerned with
polar regions.
Contributors
J. Turner, E. A. Rasmussen, A. M. Carleton, K. Ninomiya, I. Renfrew, A.
van Delden, B. Røsting, S. Grønas, E. Raustein, G. Heinemann