Icelandic Low

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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.

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

v t e Cyclones and Anticyclones of the world

Types	Extratropical Meso-scale Polar Polar low Subtropical cyclone/Subtropical ridge Tropical

Anticyclones	Polar high Siberian High Azores High (Bermuda/North Atlantic) North American High (Canadian/Greenland) South Atlantic High (St.Helena) North Pacific High South Pacific High Scandinavian High Mascarene High (Indian) Australian High Antarctic High Kalahari High

Cyclones	Aleutian low (Alaska/Far East Russia) Genoa low Icelandic Low Kona low (Hawaii)

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Icelandic Low

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