Aircraft spies gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica’s polar vortex
Researchers solve puzzle of how mountain-generated atmospheric waves wind up in hot spot The Southern Ocean is famously stormy, home to waves taller than telephone poles. Yet 50 kilometers overhead, the weather is just as tempestuous, if less obviously so. Powerful waves in the air break and crash, dumping energy into the stratosphere and disrupting […]
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