Compounding tropical and stratospheric forcing of the record low Antarctic sea-ice in 2016

Compounding tropical and stratospheric forcing of the record low Antarctic sea-ice in 2016

Compounding tropical and stratospheric forcing of the record low Antarctic sea-ice in 2016, Published online: 02 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07689-7

Antarctic sea ice extent declined dramatically in austral spring 2016. This study shows the decline was initially driven by tropical convection resulting in a wave-3 circulation pattern, followed by weakened circumpolar surface westerlies initialised in the polar stratospheric vortex.

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