The role of the stratospheric flow configuration prior to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings: A case study

Alvaro de la Camara1, John Albers2, Thomas Birner3, Rolando R Garcia1, Peter Hitchcock4, Douglas Edward Kinnison5 and Anne K Smith1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CO State Univ-Atmospheric Sci, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)University of Cambridge, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States