Ural Blocking Driving Arctic Sea-ice Loss, Cold Eurasia and Stratospheric Vortex Weakening in Autumn and Early Winter 2016-2017

Evangelos Tyrlis1, Elisa Manzini1, Juergen Bader2, Jinro Ukita3, Hisashi Nakamura4 and Daniela Matei1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, The Land in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany, (3)Niigata University, Faculty of Science, Niigata, Japan, (4)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan