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Articles | Volume 25, issue 20
Articles | Volume 25, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13651-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-13651-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 20
Research article
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24 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 24 Oct 2025

Role of in situ-excited planetary waves in polar vortex splitting during the 2002 Southern Hemisphere sudden stratospheric warming event

Ji-Hee Yoo and Hye-Yeong Chun

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This study revisits the Southern Hemisphere's only major sudden stratospheric warming in September 2002, marked by an unprecedented polar vortex split. In addition to upward-propagating planetary wave 2 (PW2), westward PW2 generated in-situ by barotropic–baroclinic instability, contributed to the vortex split. Unstable PW2 growth resulted from nonlinear wave-wave interactions and over-reflection. Vortex destabilization occurred as the anomalously poleward-shifted vortex reversed to easterlies.
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