The Arctic Polar-night Jet Oscillation

The eastward winds that form each winter in the Arctic stratosphere are intermittently disrupted by planetary-scale waves propagating up from the surface in events known as stratospheric sudden warmings. It is shown here that following roughly half of these sudden warmings, the winds take as long as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hitchcock, Adam Peter
Other Authors: Shepherd, Theodore G.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32733