Rare warming over Antarctica reveals power of stratospheric models (original) (raw)

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• 07 October 2019

Improved understanding of conditions in the stratosphere are helping to produce more-accurate short-term climate forecasts.

1. Dyani Lewis

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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