Research team is first to observe new equatorial wind patterns in Antarctica
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 15:31
in Astronomy & Space
A CIRES-led team has uncovered a critical connection between winds at Earth's equator and atmospheric waves 6,000 miles away at the South Pole. The team has found, for the first time, evidence of a Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO)—an atmospheric circulation pattern that originates at the equator—at McMurdo, Antarctica.