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Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Stratospheric Sudden Warmings

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The polar vortex usually encompasses the polar region in the winter stratosphere, but sometimes shifts markedly away from its normal position and distorts during stratospheric sudden warmings (SSWs). The cover is a schematic illustration of such a situation, in which the polar vortex is characterized by the counterclockwise flow.

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Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

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