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Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models

Improved understanding of conditions in the stratosphere are helping to produce more-accurate short-term climate forecasts.
  1. Dyani Lewis
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For the past month, a rare atmospheric phenomenon has been brewing above Antarctica, raising temperatures in the upper atmosphere by 40 degrees and threatening to reverse the direction of a powerful jet stream for only the second time since records began.

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Nature 574, 160-161 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02985-8

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