Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Their Impact on Northern Hemisphere Winter Climate

• Main Author: Oehrlein, Jessica
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Atmosphere; Winter; Stratosphere > Research; Climatology; Arctic; Midwinter; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-5sry-2p27

Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are a key driver of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere. SSWs are a disruption of the strong stratospheric westerlies over the winter pole in which the winds in the upper to middle stratosphere, from about 30 to 50 km above the surface, weaken a...