Chart showing the increase in the frequency of highly amplified jet-stream patterns, which scientists believe is related to extreme weather events.
A new study conducted by Research Professor Jennifer Francis and Laboratory Researcher Natasa Skific, “Evidence Linking Rapid Arctic Warming to Mid-latitude Weather Patterns,” was published June 1 in the science journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The study involved comparing 48 years worth of daily atmospheric information to detect weather patterns that occur repeatedly that support previous findings that the polar jet stream has been meandering more north and south in the past two decades rather than traveling in a relatively straight path. Read more at Rutgers Today.
