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Also Known As	circumpolar whirl • polar low • polar cyclone • polar winter vortex • circumpolar vortex

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Rossby wave patterns over the North Pole depicting the formation of an outbreak of cold air over Asia.

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mother-of-pearl cloud winter Rossby wave polar front jet stream polar region cyclone Aleutian low tropical cyclone bomb cyclone extratropical cyclone lee cyclone cyclogenesis Icelandic low cyclolysis

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