Aleutian Low

The Aleutian is a low pressure area, an activity center, which, superimposed, especially in winter, over the area of the Aleutian Islands and thus has a great importance for the North Pacific. In El Niño years, this characterizes particularly strong and shifts further south. Thus, the winter rains in California fall of intensive, often attracts floods west of the Rocky Mountains to be. The Aleutian is one of four reference points of the Pacific North American pattern. The Iceland Deep is the Atlantic counterpart of the Aleutentiefs.