EESA09H3 Lecture : EESA09 #6.doc
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What are polar lows: polar lows poleward of the polar front, the division between cold, polar air and warm, tropical air, storms can form, sometimes due to similarieties to hurricanes, they have been called hurricanes or. Where do they form: smaller than both mlc and tropical storms; 200 1000 km in diameter, form from nov to march in n. pacific, north atlantic, especially east of. Greenland; beaufort sea of arctic ocean: southern hemisphere, tasman sea near new zealand. What are fire storms: self-sustaining intense fires, caused naturally in forests as well as by human actions such as a targeted explosion. In arid regions of earth, wind can generate clouds of dust called dust storms: dust is loose surface material or volcanic emission mainly composed of soil particles (sio2, soil particles organized in 3 categories: clay, slit and sand. Smaller particles are less available at surface, can adhere to larger particles.