Polar lows: The development of baroclini
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D. A. Mansfield
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Article
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1974
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The formation of small disturbances in cold air outbreaks over the north‐east Atlantic is shown to be due to baroclinic instability. A case study of two such disturbances shows their growth rate, wavelength and phase speed to be very close to the predictions of the baroclinic theory. Su