Enhanced seasonal forecast skill following stratospheric sudden warmings

Advances in seasonal forecasting have brought widespread socio-economic benefits. A modelling study suggests that tropospheric forecast skill is enhanced when the forecast model is initialized at the onset of a stratospheric sudden warming event.

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