Does the Holton–Tan Mechanism Explain How the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Modulates the Arctic Polar Vortex?

By C. Garfinkel, T. Shaw, D. Hartmann, D. Waugh. 2012

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. T. Birner
2. A. Butler
3. M. Hegglin
4. T. G. Shepherd
5. Gloria L. Manney
6. J. Anstey
7. J. Perlwitz
8. C. Garfinkel

In Global and Planetary Change

1. T. Birner
2. A. Butler
3. T. G. Shepherd
4. J. Anstey
5. M. Hegglin
6. J. Perlwitz
7. C. Garfinkel
8. A. Charlton-Perez

Citations in the corpus

• The Remarkably Strong Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex of Winter 2020: Links to Record‐Breaking Arctic Oscillation and Ozone Loss (2020, background): “…forcings and boundary conditions that have been shown to impact the polar vortex include the tropical tropospheric Madden-Julian oscillation (e.g., Garfinkel et al., 2012, 2014; Lee et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2014) and the tropical stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO; e.g., Baldwin et…”
• Geomagnetic activity signatures in wintertime stratosphere wind, temperature, and wave response (2013, background): “…the stratospheric polar vortex is known to be stronger than average, while eQBO conditions lead to the vortex being noticeably weaker and warmer [Holton and Tan, 1980], although the exact mechanisms leading to the vortex strength modulation are still somewhat unclear [Garfinkel et al., 2012].”
• High‐latitude influence of the quasi‐biennial oscillation (2014, methodology): “…using small-amplitude approximations that assume a scale separation between the waves and the mean flow (Karoly and Hoskins, 1982; Hauck and Wirth, 2001; Garfinkel et al., 2012), planetary waves in the NH are generally of large amplitude and have spatial scales comparable to those of the mean flow.”
• Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (2020, background): “At least four different mechanisms have been proposed linking the QBO to vortex vari-580 ability, and the relative importance of these mechanisms is still unclear (Holton & Tan, 1980; Garfinkel, Shaw, et al., 2012; Watson & Gray, 2014; White et al., 2015; Silverman et al., 2018).”