Geopolitical weather featured in Nature: “A Russian warship’s sinking is linked to strange weather pattern”:
They found that weather patterns had led to a temperature inversion, with warmer air at higher altitudes and cooler air below it, between Ukrainian radar sources and the warship. Because of this, radar waves could refract off the atmosphere and travel much farther than usual, all the way to the warship.
The actual study was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.