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SUBMITTER: Garfinkel CI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5349291 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garfinkel Chaim I CI Son Seok-Woo SW Song Kanghyun K Aquila Valentina V Oman Luke D LD
Geophysical research letters 20170107 1
The recent hiatus in global-mean surface temperature warming was characterized by a Eurasian winter cooling trend, and the cause(s) for this cooling is unclear. Here we show that the observed hiatus in Eurasian warming was associated with a recent trend toward weakened stratospheric polar vortices. Specifically, by calculating the change in Eurasian surface air temperature associated with a given vortex weakening, we demonstrate that the recent trend toward weakened polar vortices reduced the an ...[more]