Abstract: This paper investigates the occurrence of phase alignment of the tropical stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) with the annual cycle. First, updating previous studies, observational results are shown for NCEP ...

Abstract: The work described here examines the influence of the equatorial quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) on the extratropics in a zonally truncated 3D mechanistic stratospheric model. Model results show that the extratropical ...