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Welcome to the Polar Vortex Blog!

Section: News & Features

Published: December 5, 2023

that blow from west to east. This wintertime stratospheric wind is what we call the Arctic polar vortex [footnote 2]. An atmosphere dance party: who's the wallflower, and who's the extrovert? If we we ...

Siberian weather, climate, and Matryoshka dolls

Section: News & Features

Published: August 22, 2016

to a region, like the cool and windy conditions that helped stall the summer retreat of the sea ice in the Laptev Sea. All of the above. So, what about the climate connection to a thawed reindeer car ...

El Niño and the stratospheric polar vortex

Section: News & Features

Published: April 28, 2016

not when the vortex strengthens. It is important to note that many intrusions of cold Arctic air, including the ones described in the headlines above, are largely unrelated to the stratospheric polar ...

Date night with the stratospheric polar vortex

Section: News & Features

Published: December 20, 2023

thickness ("anomalies"). These plots can indicate when changes in air thickness over the Arctic are confined to either the stratosphere or the troposphere alone, when changes are occurring at the same ...

June 2020: third-hottest June on record

Section: News & Features

Published: July 14, 2020

the process here), it will have set a record for warmest temperature ever observed north of the Arctic Circle. In total, over six percent of the world's land and oceans experienced record-high June te ...

March 2020 continues hot start to the year

Section: News & Features

Published: April 14, 2020

across Alaska and northern Canada, likely reflecting the continued positive phase of the Arctic Oscillation. The positive Arctic Oscillation keeps temperatures cooler than average across the Far North ...

Hot & Cold: Monthly Temperature Anomalies in 2010

Section: News & Features

Published: August 9, 2011

across the Northern Hemisphere were largely dominated by a strong negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. The dramatic differences from average temperatures on either side of the North Atlantic—unus ...

Water Resources Dashboard

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 25, 2016

U. S. Climate Resilience Toolkit identified as useful for the Water sector in Alaska and the Arctic Region. Visit data source . Gre ...

Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europe's Mild Climate: A Problem-based Learning Activity

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm and the potential effects if polar ice were to continue melting." Activity can be modified to answer numerous research questions. Great way f ...

2015 State of the Climate: Mountain Glaciers

Section: News & Features

Published: August 2, 2016

climate is warming over the long term. References . Pelto, M. S., 2016: Alpine Glaciers and Ice Sheets [in "State of the Climate in 2015"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97 (8 ...