ADGEO Advances in Geosciences ADGEO Adv. Geosci. 1680-7359 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/adgeo-7-175-2006 Synoptic and dynamic characteristics of selected deep depressions over Cyprus Nicolaides K. A. 1 Michalelides S. C. 1 Karacostas T. 2 Meteorological Service, 28, Nikis Ave., Nicosia, CY-1028, Cyprus Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece 22 02 2006 7 175 180 Copyright: © 2006 K. A. Nicolaides et al. 2006 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ This article is available from https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/7/175/2006/adgeo-7-175-2006.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/7/175/2006/adgeo-7-175-2006.pdf

In this study, the spatial and temporal distributions of dynamic and synoptic characteristics of a selection of 32 deep baroclinic depressions have been investigated. The study covers the cold period months of November till March, in the period from 1 November 1986 to 31 March 2003. For the needs of the study, several synoptic characteristics of these depressions have been extracted. Also, several dynamic characteristics during the evolution of the depressions were studied: relative vorticity, divergence, vertical motion and a static stability parameter. The results are presented in the form of isobaric distributions over, three tropospheric isobaric levels, namely the lower 850 hPa, the middle 500 hPa and the upper 300 hPa.