A well-known phenomenon in the atmospheric sciences that challenges the classical baroclinic instability theory of cyclone development is midwinter suppression. That is, the North Pacific storm-track activity has a minimum in midwinter, despite the surface baroclinicity being at its highest.
The different effects on storm tracks between upper- and lower-level eddy growth over the North Pacific
- PhysOrg
- 23. 9 2022 (19:16)