Connections Between the Stratosphere and Surface Weather Associated with the Stratospheric Sudden Warming in Early 2018

• Main Authors: Pawson, S., Coy, L., Wargan, K.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Geosciences (General); Merra; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20190000856

A major Stratospheric Sudden Warming (SSW) occurred on 11 February 2018. This was the first major SSW since January 2013 and the first split-vortex SSW since January 2009. We examine the SSW and the tropospheric connections using the NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis (1980-2018) and the NASA GEOS Forward Proc...