Polar Vortex Disruptions by High Latitude Ocean Warming

Hamouda, Mostafa E.; Portal, Alice; Pasquero, Claudia (2024). Polar Vortex Disruptions by High Latitude Ocean Warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(8) American Geophysical Union 10.1029/2023GL107567

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Mid-latitude extreme cold outbreaks are associated with disruptions of the polar vortex, which often happen abruptly in connection to a sudden stratospheric warming. Understanding global warming (particularly Arctic amplification) impacts on forecasting such events is challenging for the scientific community. Here we apply clustering analysis on the Northern Annular Mode to identify surface precursors and the governing mechanisms causing polar vortex disruption events. Two clusters of vortex breakdown emerge; 65% of the events, mainly displacements, are associated with high-latitude Ocean warming in the North Pacific and in Barents-Kara Sea. Such warming may cause large scale modifications of the tropospheric flow that favors a slowdown of the stratospheric vortex. The persistence of Ocean surface temperature patterns favors polar vortex disruptions, potentially improving prediction skills at the sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales.

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