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Archive: Fri Oct 2006

Stratospheric intrusion vorticies

GOES-12 6.5 µm water vapor channel imagery (QuickTime animation, above) revealed a series of vortices migrating southward along the western periphery of the large cold-core polar vortex that was centered over  southern Ontario on 13 September. Instability-like fragmentation of a Read More