Stratospheric drivers of extreme events at the Earth's surface

DIV Domeisen, AH Butler - Communications Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
The stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere at heights between 10-50 km, is an important
source of variability for the weather and climate at the Earth's surface on timescales of weeks …

Impacts, processes and projections of the quasi-biennial oscillation

JA Anstey, SM Osprey, J Alexander… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
In the tropical stratosphere, deep layers of eastward and westward winds encircle the globe
and descend regularly from the upper stratosphere to the tropical tropopause. With a …

Long-range prediction and the stratosphere

AA Scaife, MP Baldwin, AH Butler… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Over recent years there have been concomitant advances in the development of
stratosphere-resolving numerical models, our understanding of stratosphere–troposphere …

QBO and ENSO effects on the mean meridional circulation, polar vortex, subtropical westerly jets, and wave patterns during boreal winter

V Kumar, S Yoden, MH Hitchman - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The joint influence of the stratospheric quasi‐biennial oscillation (QBO) and the El Niño
Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the polar vortex, subtropical westerly jets (STJs), and wave …

A QBO cookbook: Sensitivity of the quasi‐biennial oscillation to resolution, resolved waves, and parameterized gravity waves

CI Garfinkel, EP Gerber, O Shamir… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An intermediate complexity moist general circulation model is used to investigate the
sensitivity of the quasi‐biennial oscillation (QBO) to resolution, diffusion, tropical …

Southern hemisphere response to the quasi-biennial oscillation in the CMIP5/6 models

J Rao, CI Garfinkel, R Ren, T Wu, Y Lu - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Using 25 quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO)-resolving models from phases 5 and 6 of the
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5/6), this study systematically explores the …

Role of stratospheric processes in climate change: Advances and challenges

W Tian, J Huang, J Zhang, F Xie, W Wang… - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2023 - Springer
In this review, instead of summarizing all the advances and progress achieved in
stratospheric research, the main advances and new developments in stratosphere …

Exploring the ENSO modulation of the QBO periods with GISS E2. 2 models

T Zhou, KJ DallaSanta, C Orbe, DH Rind… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Observational studies have shown that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) exerts an
influence on the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO). The downward propagation of the QBO …

Development of the extratropical response to the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation

J Rao, CI Garfinkel, IP White - Journal of Climate, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Using the Model of an Idealized Moist Atmosphere (MiMA) capable of spontaneously
generating a quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), the gradual establishment of the extratropical …

Influence of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation on the spatial structure of the wintertime Arctic Oscillation

Q Cai, W Chen, S Chen, T Ma… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study reveals that the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation (QBO) has a marked impact on the
spatial structure of the Arctic Oscillation (AO) in boreal winter. In particular, the North Pacific …