Recent strengthening of the stratospheric Arctic vortex response to warming in the central North Pacific

Dingzhu Hu; Zhaoyong Guan; Wenshou Tian; Rongcai Ren

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04138-3

Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Recent strengthening of the stratospheric Arctic vortex response to warming in the central North Pacific

Dingzhu Hu,
Zhaoyong Guan,
Wenshou Tian,
Rongcai Ren

Affiliations

Dingzhu Hu: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters of China Ministry of Education (KLME), Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Zhaoyong Guan: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disasters of China Ministry of Education (KLME), Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Wenshou Tian: College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Rongcai Ren: State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04138-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The stratospheric Arctic vortex plays a critical role in forecasting cold winters in northern mid-latitudes. Here the authors show that the stratospheric Arctic vortex strengthened during 1998–2016, with ~25% of this strengthening contributed by warming in the central North Pacific.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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