Abstract
A comparative study between Short Life Cut Off Low (SL-COL)extended for one day, and Long Life Cut Off Low (LL-COL)extended for ten daysassociated with successive rain storms over Iraq on 21to 30 April, 2018. The study tracking the evolution stages of both COLs in different pressure surfaces at troposphere layer,andfound that there are many dynamical processes effect on prolongthe life of COL. These processes exchanged their roles between different pressure levels. In both cases the high potential vorticity (PV) anomaly at 315ᵒKisentropic surface is responsible on the emergence COLs, and the convection processesat lower troposphere and latent heat at upper troposphere are responsible on COLs dissipation.The main reasons of long-life COLcan be summaries asa high-pressure system below COL at the surface which preventingthe convection process, the formation of Omega block that promotingthe COL system and preventing its dissipationrapidly in spite of the intenseconvection processes due to tropical moist system at the surface
Keywords
Long Life-Cut off low;Short Life-Cut off low;Omega block;Rex block