Climatology of Upper Tropospheric–Lower Stratospheric (UTLS) Jets and Tropopauses in MERRA

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Manney, Gloria L., Hegglin, Michaela I., Daffer, William H., Schwartz, Michael H., Santee, Michelle L., Pawson, Steven
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2014
• Subjects: Merra; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/36862/; http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00243.1

A global climatology (1979–2012) from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) shows distributions and seasonal evolution of upper tropospheric jets and their relationships to the stratospheric subvortex and multiple tropopauses. The overall climatological patterns...