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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1015-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1015-2025
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26 Sep 2025
Research article |  | 26 Sep 2025

The impact of tropospheric blocking on the duration of the sudden stratospheric warmings in boreal winter 2023/24

Ekaterina Vorobeva and Yvan Orsolini

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The factors behind why some polar stratospheric wind disturbances persist while others remain short are unclear. This study examines the impact of tropospheric high-pressure systems on the duration of three recent polar stratospheric wind disturbances in the winter of 2023/24. Two were short-lived, lasting under 7 d. The findings in this study show that two short disturbances could not develop into long-lasting events due to developing high-pressure systems over the planetary wave troughs.
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