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Limpasuvan, Varavut, Thompson, David W. J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5413-4376 and Hartmann, Dennis L.
(2004)
The life cycle of the Northern Hemisphere sudden stratospheric warmings.
Journal of Climate, 17 (13).
pp. 2584-2596.
ISSN 0894-8755
Abstract
Motivated by recent evidence of strong stratospheric-tropospheric coupling during the Northern Hemisphere winter, this study examines the evolution of the atmospheric flow and wave fluxes at levels throughout the stratosphere and troposphere during the composite life cycle of a sudden stratospheric warming. The composite comprises 39 major and minor warming events using 44 years of NCEP-NCAR reanalysis data. The incipient stage of the life cycle is characterized by preconditioning of the stratospheric zonal flow and anomalous, quasi-stationary wavenumber-1 forcing in both the stratosphere and troposphere. As the life cycle intensifies, planetary wave driving gives rise to weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex and downward propagation of the attendant easterly wind and positive temperature anomalies. When these anomalies reach the tropopause, the life cycle is marked by momentum flux and mean meridional circulation anomalies at tropospheric levels that are consistent with the negative phase of the Northern Hemisphere annular mode. The anomalous momentum fluxes are largest over the Atlantic half of the hemisphere and are associated primarily with waves of wavenumber 3 and higher.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | general-circulation model,polar-night jet,arctic oscillation,annular modes,tropospheric circulation,global circulation,surface climate,variability,propagation,anomalies |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2022 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2023 00:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/85434 |
| DOI: | 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2584:TLCOTN>2.0.CO;2 |
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