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These warming events occur naturally every other year or so, disrupting the upper-level winds high over the Arctic.
While often difficult to predict, their effects can be highly disruptive to transportation, infrastructure, agriculture and other human activities.
Now an international team of researchers, including from the University of Lincoln, UK, and the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, has shed light on how these weather events in the Arctic can have knock-on effects for extreme winter weather in Europe, North America and Asia.
They found that disruptions of the stratospheric polar vortex, located 30 kilometers above the North Pole, compound with other factors including the impact of Arctic sea-ice loss, ocean temperature patterns, tropical fluctuations, and natural variations in the atmosphere.
Modern-day aircraft already make use of jet streams to save time and fuel, but a new study shows that by being a bit smarter about how they ride these winds, transatlantic flights could be using up to 16 percent less fuel – and pumping out much l