Quantifying the spread in sudden stratospheric warming wave forcing in CMIP6

Martínez-Andradas, Verónica; de la Cámara, Alvaro; Zurita-Gotor, Pablo; Lott, François; Serva, Federico

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-329-2025

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Quantifying the spread in sudden stratospheric warming wave forcing in CMIP6

Verónica Martínez-Andradas, Alvaro de la Cámara, Pablo Zurita-Gotor, François Lott, and Federico Serva

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