Icelandic Low

An Icelandic cyclone on September 4, 2003

The Icelandic Low is a semi-permanent centre of low atmospheric pressure found between Iceland and southern Greenland and extending in the Northern Hemisphere winter into the Barents Sea. In summer it weakens and splits into two centres, one near Davis Strait and the other west of Iceland. It is a principal centre of action in the atmosphere circulation of the Northern Hemisphere, associated with frequent cyclone activity. It forms one pole of the North Atlantic oscillation, the other being the Azores High.

References

National Snow and Ice Data Center, retrieved 19 May 2005.

Cyclones and anticyclones of the world (Centers of action)

Types	Extratropical Mesocyclone/Anticyclonic storm Polar Subtropical cyclone/Subtropical ridge Thermal Tropical

Anticyclones	Polar High Siberian High Azores High (Bermuda/North Atlantic) North American High (Canadian/Greenland) South Atlantic High (St.Helena) North Pacific High (Hawaii High) South Pacific High Kalahari High

Cyclones	Aleutian Low (Alaska/Far East Russia) Atlantic hurricane Australian Low (east coast) European windstorm Genoa Low Icelandic Low Kona storm (Hawaii) Nor'easter Pacific hurricane Polar vortex Typhoon Wake Low

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Icelandic Low

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