Sudden stratospheric warmings

MP Baldwin, B Ayarzagüena, T Birner… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are impressive fluid dynamical events in which
large and rapid temperature increases in the winter polar stratosphere (∼ 10–50 km) are …

Tracking the stratosphere‐to‐surface impact of sudden stratospheric warmings

RJ Hall, DM Mitchell, WJM Seviour… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events are extreme atmospheric regimes which can
have a signature in surface weather up to 40 days after event onset in the stratosphere …

Surface hazards in North-west Europe following sudden stratospheric warming events

RJ Hall, DM Mitchell, WJM Seviour… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) have been linked to surface temperature
anomalies, but how these connect to changes in the likelihood of specific weather extremes …

The wave geometry of final stratospheric warming events

AH Butler, DIV Domeisen - Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2021 - wcd.copernicus.org
Every spring, the stratospheric polar vortex transitions from its westerly wintertime state to its
easterly summertime state due to seasonal changes in incoming solar radiation, an event …

Revealing the statistics of extreme events hidden in short weather forecast data

J Finkel, EP Gerber, DS Abbot, J Weare - AGU Advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme weather events have significant consequences, dominating the impact of climate on
society. While high‐resolution weather models can forecast many types of extreme events …

Persistent model biases in the CMIP6 representation of stratospheric polar vortex variability

RJ Hall, DM Mitchell, WJM Seviour… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) can have major impact on surface wintertime
weather, especially at mid‐high latitudes. We do not yet have a complete understanding of …

Amplified Decadal Variability of Extratropical Surface Temperatures by Stratosphere‐Troposphere Coupling

AH Butler, AY Karpechko… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The dominant pattern of Northern Hemisphere extratropical climate variability is the Northern
Annular Mode (NAM), which in wintertime represents the coupling of the stratospheric and …

How well are sudden stratospheric warming surface impacts captured in CMIP6 climate models?

RJ Hall, DM Mitchell, WJM Seviour… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are associated with episodes of extreme winter
weather, often leading to significant societal impacts. Using observations alone, it is hard to …

How well do we know the surface impact of sudden stratospheric warmings?

J Oehrlein, LM Polvani, L Sun… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) are key to understanding and predicting
subseasonal Northern Hemisphere winter climate variability. Here we study the uncertainty …

Impacts of Sudden Stratospheric Warming on Extreme Cold Events in Early 2021: An Ensemble‐Based Sensitivity Analysis

M Zhang, XY Yang, Y Huang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Impacts of sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) on three severe cold events (C1–C3) over
Northern Hemisphere in early 2021 were investigated using subseasonal‐to‐seasonal …