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August 25, 2024
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Effects of extreme stratospheric polar vortex events on near-surface wind gusts across Europe

Publicated to: Environmental Research Letters. 19 (9): 094044- - 2024-09-01 19(9), DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad67f4

Authors:

Utrabo-Carazo, E; Lockwood, JF; Dunn, RJH; Minola, L; Aguilar, E; Azorin-Molina, C
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Affiliations

Ctr Invest Desertificac, Consejo Super Invest Cient CIDE,CSIC UV Generalit, Atmosphere & Ocean Lab, Climatoc Lab,Climate Atmosphere & Ocean Lab, Moncada, Valencia, Spain - Author
Met Off Hadley Ctr, Exeter, England - Author
Politecn & Univ Turin, Interuniv Dept Reg & Urban Studies & Planning DIST, Turin, Italy - Author
Univ Gothenburg, Dept Earth Sci, Reg Climate Grp, Gothenburg, Sweden - Author
Univ Rovira i Virgili, Ctr Climate Change, Tarragona, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Extreme stratospheric polar vortex (SPV) events can influence winter tropospheric circulation for up to 60 d. Their impacts on air temperature have been extensively studied recently. However, there is a research gap in their effects on wind speeds and its extremes. This study aims to evaluate, for the first time, the impacts of such extreme SPV events on observed and modelled near-surface wind gusts across Europe. We have analysed wind gust data coming from: station-based observations (for the Iberian Peninsula and Scandinavia), the ERA5 reanalysis and the SEAS5 and GloSea6 seasonal forecasting systems. We assess their similarities in reproducing 4 parameters of their corresponding distributions: median, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis. For all these datasets, the results indicate that extreme positive SPV events are followed by negative wind gust anomalies in Southern Europe and positive in Northern Europe. Whereas, negative SPV events (such as Sudden Stratospheric Warmings) have positive gust anomalies in Southern Europe and negative in the north. A central region shows negligible anomalies in both cases. This highlights the ability of SPV as a predictor for short-medium-term forecasting of extreme wind events, which would have direct applications to many socioeconomic and environmental issues such as the estimation of wind-power generation.
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Keywords

Extreme eventsImpactOscillatioPolar vortexSudden stratospheric warmingSudden stratospheric warmingsWind gusts

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 12/111, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-05:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 4.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 4 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 4.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 4 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9379235
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Italy; Sweden; United Kingdom.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Utrabo-Carazo, Eduardo) and Last Author (Azorin-Molina, Cesar).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Utrabo-Carazo, Eduardo.

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Awards linked to the item

E U-C was supported by the FPI fellowship (PRE2019-090148). R J H D was supported by the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme funded by DSIT. L M is founded by the International Postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council (2921-00444). This study was conducted in the framework of the IBER-STILLING Project (RTI2018-095749-A-100; MCIU/ AEI/FEDER,UE); the VENTS Project (GVA-AICO/2021/023); the RED-CLIMA 2 Project (LINCGLOBAL-CSIC, Ref. LINCG24042) and the CSIC Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform (PTI) Clima (PTI-CLIMA). Finally, we acknowledge the rich discussion with the expert groups at the Met Office (UK) during the short research stay conducted in autumn 2023 and funded by the WIND-ATLAS Project (reference 202230I068; CSIC). We acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers for their detailed and helpful comments to the original manuscript.DAS:The data that support the findings of this study are openly available at the following URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11191250. The observed DPWG anomaly series for the IP and Scandinavia can be found at Utrabo-Carazo (2024) (https://github.com/Utrabo-Carazo/ DPWGanom_IP-Scandinavia; last accessed 14 May 2024. ERA5 data were downloaded from ECMWF (https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47; last accessed 14 May 2024). SEAS5 and GloSea6 data were downloaded from the Climate Data Store (https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.181d637e; last accessed 14 May 2024)
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