The Climate Symposium 2014 will take place in Darmstadt, Germany, 13-17 October. This large conference focusses on climate information for decision making and is organised by the World Climate Research Programme and Eumetsat.
Important dates:
31 March – Deadline to submit application for travel support
15 April – Deadline to submit abstracts
15 May – Early registration deadline
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In a new ACPD article, N. Eguchi et al. use the NICAM global non-hydrostatic model to investigate the dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) during a stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) in boreal winter. The model reproduced the observed tropical tropospheric changes well, including the enhancement of convective activity following the amplification of planetary waves. They found that deep convective activity was enhanced from 10-20°S and although this upwelling in the TTL was correlated with that occurring in the stratosphere, the TTL temperature tendency was controlled mainly by diabatic heating originating from cloud formation. This suggests that the stratospheric meridional circulation affects cloud formation in the TTL. The full abstract can be found here.
The 13th Quadrennial iCACGP Symposium and 13th IGAC Science Conference to be held on 22-26 September 2014 in Natal, Brazil, extended its deadline for abstract submission and Young Scientist support to 31 March.
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In a new ACPD paper, A. Schanz and co-authors use the WACCM model to study the diurnal ozone cycle in the stratosphere, exploring its underlying photochemical and dynamical processes. The analysis is focused on the middle stratosphere at 5hPa where the simulated ozone diurnal cycle shows a minimum after sunrise and maximum in the late afternoon. They find that this diurnal cycle varies seasonally and spatially, with a maximum amplitude of 15% (0.8ppmv) occurring at the polar circle in summer. They show that the global pattern of the diurnal ozone cycle is governed by the solar zenith angle and sunshine duration. They also find that the synoptic scale variability of the diurnal ozone cycle is often anti-correlated with regional temperature anomalies due to the temperature dependence of the Chapman cycle reactions. Furthermore, at high latitudes increased westerly (easterly) winds cause a decrease (increase) in the sunshine duration of an air parcel leading to a weaker (stronger) diurnal ozone cycle. The full abstract can be found here.
The January 2014 issue of the SPARC newsletter No. 42 is now available with articles on the following topics:
Find CLIVAR Bulletin February 2014 with the following content:
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