Warming in the stratosphere leads to cold winters
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - 09:50
in Earth & Climate
In the first week of January, the Arctic stratosphere suddenly warmed up, an occurrence known as "sudden stratospheric warming" (SSW). This phenomenon results in cold winter weather, just the kind we are facing now – ETH researchers have visualised the event that was observed before the current one – in February 2018. Daniela Domeisen explains how this phenomenon occurs in an interview.