SPARC Science Update: 12-18 September

A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).

Observational evidence of the influence of Antarctic stratospheric ozone variability on middle atmosphere dynamics. By N. Venkateswara Rao et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Convective Transport of Trace Species Observed During the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 Experiment (START08). By L.W. Siu et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation (TBO) indistinguishable from white noise. By M.F. Stuecker et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Signal of Central Pacific El Niño in the Southern Hemispheric stratosphere during austral spring. By C. Yang et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Sustainable early-career networks. By F. Rauser et al. in Nature Geoscience.

Effect of tropical cyclones on the tropical tropopause parameters observed using COSMIC GPS RO data. By S. Ravindra Babu et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Comparing the impacts of tropical SST variability and polar stratospheric ozone loss on the Southern Ocean westerly winds. By D.P. Schneider et al. in the Journal of Climate.

Discussion papers – open for comment

The vertical distribution of volcanic SO2 plumes measured by IASI. By E. Carboni et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

The millennium water vapour drop in chemistry-climate model simulations. By S. Brinkop et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Stratospheric ozone change and related climate impacts over 1850–2100 as modelled by the ACCMIP ensemble. By F. Iglesias-Suarez et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.