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Criteria to Identify Polar Lows

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The cases of polar lows (PLs) over the Norwegian and Barents seas in 2013, in the vicinity of Severnaya Zemlya in 2015, and in the near-edge zone of the Laptev Sea in 2021 were analyzed using the reanalysis and the WRF-ARW model simulations. A combination of criteria was selected that are sufficient for identifying PLs and analyzing their size and intensity in a convenient and understandable form. These criteria are the estimates of helicity as an integral characteristic related to integral vortex formations and a kinematic vorticity number. Such criteria can be used to simplify the time-consuming procedure for collecting primary data on PL cases for machine learning.

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  1. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    N. V. Vazaeva, O. G. Chkhetiani & E. A. Durneva

  2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 105005, Moscow, Russia

    N. V. Vazaeva

  3. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 199397, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. A. Durneva

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Translated from Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2022, No. 4, pp. 20-33. https://doi.org/10.52002/0130-2906-2022-4-20-33.

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Vazaeva, N.V., Chkhetiani, O.G. & Durneva, E.A. Criteria to Identify Polar Lows. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 47, 262–271 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373922040021

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