Articles | Volume 5, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-733-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-733-2024
Research article
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08 May 2024
Research article |  | 08 May 2024

Opposite spectral properties of Rossby waves during weak and strong stratospheric polar vortex events

Michael Schutte, Daniela I. V. Domeisen, and Jacopo Riboldi

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The winter circulation in the stratosphere, a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere between 10 and 50 km height, is tightly linked to the circulation in the lower atmosphere determining our daily weather. This interconnection happens in the form of waves propagating in and between these two layers. Here, we use space–time spectral analysis to show that disruptions and enhancements of the stratospheric circulation modify the shape and propagation of waves in both layers.