“…Ultimately, our analysis can be useful for a better comprehension of the relationship between Ural Blocking and other mid-high latitude climate features already investigated in literature, such as Arctic sea ice and Barents-Kara Seas atmospheric dynamics (Ruggieri et al, 2016(Ruggieri et al, , 2017Chen et al, 2018;Ahmadi & Alizadeh, 2023), the stratospheric polar vortex (Peings, 2019;Tyrlis et al, 2019), and atmospheric variability modes such as North Atlantic Oscillation (B. Luo et al, 2021;Ahmadi & Alizadeh, 2023;Peings et al, 2023).…”