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1. Introduction

A mechanism for the downward propagation of polar cap mean zonal wind (u_pcm) variations, hypothesized by Thompson and Wallace (1998) and Baldwin and Dunkerton (1999), has been verified using ECMWF circulation data for NH winter 1988-89.