FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Polar low climatology over the Nordic and Barents seas based on satellite passive microwave data BT AF SMIRNOVA, Julia E. GOLUBKIN, Pavel A. BOBYLEV, Leonid P. ZABOLOTSKIKH, Elizaveta CHAPRON, Bertrand AS 1:1;2:1;3:2,3;4:1;5:1,4; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LOS; C1 Russian State Hydrometeorol Univ, Satellite Oceanog Lab, St Petersburg, Russia. Nansen Int Environm & Remote Sensing Ctr, St Petersburg, Russia. Nansen Environm & Remote Sensing Ctr, Bergen, Norway. Inst Francais Rech Exploitat Mer, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, Plouzane, France. C2 UNIV RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROL, RUSSIA NIERSC, RUSSIA NERSC, NORWAY IFREMER, FRANCE SI AUTRE BREST SE AUTRE PDG-ODE-LOS UM LOPS IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-europe copubli-int-hors-europe IF 4.212 TC 31 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00275/38639/37161.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;polar lows;Nordic and Barents seas;satellite passive microwave data;SSMI;total atmospheric water vapor content AB A new climatology of polar lows over the Nordic and Barents seas for 14 seasons (1995/1996-2008/2009) is presented. For the first time in climatological studies of polar lows an approach based on satellite passive microwave data was adopted for polar low identification. A total of 637 polar lows were found in 14 extended winter seasons by combining total atmospheric water vapor content and sea surface wind speed fields retrieved from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager data. As derived, the polar low activity in the Norwegian and Barents Seas is found to be almost equal, and the main polar low genesis area is located northeastward of the North Cape. For the Barents Sea, a significant correlation is found between the number of polar lows and mean sea ice extent. Individual indicative polar low characteristics (i.e., diameter, lifetime, distance traveled, translation speed, and maximum wind speed) are also presented. PY 2015 PD JUN SO Geophysical Research Letters SN 0094-8276 PU Amer Geophysical Union VL 42 IS 13 UT 000358691300065 BP 5603 EP 5609 DI 10.1002/2015GL063865 ID 38639 ER EF