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PREVIOUS communications1,2 reported observations from the southern hemisphere indicating an attenuation of the quasi-biennial stratospheric oscillation in the years 1963–64. The 24 to 26 month cycles of wind and temperature in the lower stratosphere, and of total ozone, weakened or vanished after a series of pronounced cycles2,3 in the years 1955 to 1962 (which were characterized by high sunspot activity).
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BERSON, F., KULKARNI, R. Sunspot Cycle and the Quasi-biennial Stratospheric Oscillation. Nature 217, 1133–1134 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2171133a0
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