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The planetary-scale cyclonic circulation, centered generally in the polar regions, extending from the middle troposphere to the stratosphere.  5, record 1, English, - polar%20vortex

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The westerly airflow is largely a manifestation of the thermal wind above the polar frontal zone of middle and subpolar latitudes. The vortex is strongest in winter when the pole-to-equator temperature gradient is strongest. In the Northern Hemisphere, the vortex has two centers in the mean, one near Baffin Island and the other over northeast Siberia.  5, record 1, English, - polar%20vortex

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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Tourbillon créé en haute troposphère, au-dessus de chacun des pôles géographiques, par la circulation cyclonique des vents d'ouest.  2, record 1, French, - tourbillon%20circumpolaire

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Le phénomène du trou d'ozone est renforcé par l'existence de ce que l'on nomme le vortex polaire, un modèle de circulation particulier à la stratosphère au-dessus du pôle sud au cours de l'hiver austral et qui isole cette région de son environnement [...]  4, record 1, French, - tourbillon%20circumpolaire

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Le tourbillon circumpolaire isole la couche d'ozone polaire des masses d'air environnantes, plus riches en ozone.  2, record 1, French, - tourbillon%20circumpolaire

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Dans les textes techniques récents, probablement sous l'influence de l'anglais, c'est le terme «vortex polaire» qu'on emploie généralement.  2, record 1, French, - tourbillon%20circumpolaire

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

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Zona semi aislada de circulación ciclónica constituida cada invierno en la estratosfera polar.  3, record 1, Spanish, - v%C3%B3rtice%20polar

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El vórtice polar austral es más fuerte que el septentrional. El vórtice aumenta el agotamiento del ozono al retener aire muy frío que contiene aerosoles y en el cual pueden tener lugar las reacciones de destrucción del ozono.  3, record 1, Spanish, - v%C3%B3rtice%20polar

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Al fenómeno que azota EE.UU. [Estados Unidos] se lo denomina “vórtice polar”. Es un sistema de baja presión profunda que se extiende a los niveles superiores de la atmósfera y hace descender masas heladas de aire que, por lo general, circulan alrededor del Círculo Polar Ártico.  4, record 1, Spanish, - v%C3%B3rtice%20polar

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Small, shallow depression which forms mainly in winter over some high-latitude seas within a polar or arctic air mass.  5, record 2, English, - polar%20low

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When arctic-origin air in winter flows southward (northward in the southern hemisphere) across (relatively) warmer seas, strong surface heating acts both to enhance the degree of instability, and trigger vigorous moist convective towers. This is sufficient alone to give rise to heavy, wintry showers/cumulonimbus clusters etc., but often marked troughing, or even a closed circulation in the isobaric flow is found; the resultant low-level convergence/positive vorticity enhancement, plus the localised concentration of the latent heat energy released, enhances development within the system, and an intense (but synoptically small) area of rain, hail, sleet or snow & squally winds can result - a polar low (or polar depression or polar meso-cyclone in some texts).  2, record 2, English, - polar%20low

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What is a polar low? Part of a diverse group of mesoscale weather systems (polar meso-cyclones). ... [There is] three types of polar meso-cyclones: -jet streak type, -arctic front type, -cold low type.  6, record 2, English, - polar%20low

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Polar mesocyclones: a term now used to encompass the whole 'family' of disturbances resulting from arctic air flowing equatorward over progressively warmer seas; the term 'polar low' is now often used only for 'extreme' systems where gale or near gale-force winds are observed.  7, record 2, English, - polar%20low

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Its motion is approximately the same as the air stream in which it is embedded.  5, record 2, English, - polar%20low

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Petite dépression peu profonde qui se forme principalement en hiver dans une masse d'air polaire ou arctique située sur certaines mers des hautes latitudes.  1, record 2, French, - d%C3%A9pression%20polaire

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Son mouvement est approximativement le même que celui du courant atmosphérique dans lequel elle se situe.  1, record 2, French, - d%C3%A9pression%20polaire

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Depresión pequeña y poco profunda que se forma dentro de una masa de aire polar o ártico, especialmente en invierno, sobre los mares polares.  1, record 2, Spanish, - baja%20polar

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Se mueve siguiendo, aproximadamente, la dirección de la corriente de aire en que está inserta.  1, record 2, Spanish, - baja%20polar