Articles | Volume 24, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-265-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-265-2017
Research article
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09 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 09 Jun 2017

A simple kinematic model for the Lagrangian description of relevant nonlinear processes in the stratospheric polar vortex

Víctor José García-Garrido, Jezabel Curbelo, Carlos Roberto Mechoso, Ana María Mancho, and Stephen Wiggins

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Our work shows that a simple kinematic model is able to retain the fundamental mechanisms responsible for complex fluid parcel evolution in the stratosphere. Our analysis justifies in a controlled manner the formation of filaments eroding the polar vortex and shows that the breaking and splitting of the polar vortex is explained by the sudden growth of a planetary wave and the decay of the axisymmetric flow.