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Kinetic and available potential energy transport during the stratospheric sudden warming in January 2009

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The local features of transient kinetic energy and available potential energy were investigated using ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) Interim Reanalysis data for the stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) event of January 2009. The Western Europe high plays important roles in the propagation of the energy from North America to Eurasian. When the Western Europe high appeared and shifted eastward, energy conversions increased and energy propagated from North America to Eurasian as a form of interaction energy flow. The baroclinic conversion between transient-eddy kinetic energy (K e) and transient-eddy available potential energy (A e) and the horizontal advection of geopotential height were approximately one order of magnitude less than K e and A e generation terms. So, these terms were less important to this SSW event.

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  1. Laboratory of Cloud-Precipitation Physics and Severe Storms, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Qunjie Zuo  (左群杰) & Shouting Gao  (高守亭)

  2. Graduate University of Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Qunjie Zuo  (左群杰)

  3. Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Qunjie Zuo  (左群杰) & Daren Lü  (吕达仁)

  4. State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Shouting Gao  (高守亭)

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Zuo, Q., Gao, S. & Lü, D. Kinetic and available potential energy transport during the stratospheric sudden warming in January 2009. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 29, 1343–1359 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-012-1198-5

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