Identification of Southern Low Pressure Systems

In this study, using the theoretical basis, an algorithm was designed to identify southern system for the period of 1986-2015 which led to identification of 158 southern low pressure systems. Then two of them were selected for synoptic and dynamic analysis.
According to the results, the designed algorithm has ability to identify southern systems. The results showed that formation and structure of southern low pressure systems were very similar to mid-latitude weather systems and differed from thermal low pressure systems. Strong baroclinicity, strong temperature advection in low levels, cold pool in mid-levels and cyclonic circulation in air columns are the most important characteristics of southern low pressure systems that are basically different from thermal low pressure systems