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

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Hu, Dingzhu, Guan, Zhaoyong, Tian, Wenshou, Ren, Rongcai
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Pacific; Sav’; aleutian low
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923267/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29703910; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04138-3

The stratospheric Arctic vortex (SAV) plays a critical role in forecasting cold winters in northern mid-latitudes. Its influence on the tropospheric mid- and high-latitudes has attracted growing attention in recent years. However, the trend in the SAV during the recent two decades is still unknown....