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The January 2021 sudden stratospheric warming
Author(s) -
Lee Simon H.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.3966
Subject(s) - sudden stratospheric warming , stratosphere , polar vortex , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , arctic , polar , the arctic , climatology , geology , oceanography , physics , astronomy
On 5 January 2021, the Arctic stratospheric polar vortex dramatically weakened, and the temperature of the Arctic stratosphere rapidly increased in an event known as a major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW). It is likely that this SSW influenced surface weather conditions for over a month afterward.
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