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Stratospheric tropical warming event & its impact on the polar and tropical troposphere Stratosphere

  • Writer: David I Birch Climate-Earth20
    David I Birch Climate-Earth20
  • Jul 6, 2019
  • 1 min read

Stratosphere–troposphere coupling is investigated in relation to middle atmospheric subtropical jet (MASTJ) variations in boreal winter. An exceptional strengthening of the MASTJ occurred in association with a sudden equatorward shift of the stratospheric polar night jet (PNJ) in early December 2011. This abrupt transformation of the MASTJ and PNJ had no apparent relation to the upward propagation of planetary waves from the troposphere.

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https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/615/2017/

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