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

 

Stratospheric role in interdecadal changes of El Niño impacts over Europe. By B. Ayarzagüena et al. in Climate Dynamics.

The influence of the Stratospheric state on North Atlantic Weather Regimes. By A.J. Charlton‐Perez, L. Ferranti, and R.W. Lee in the Quaterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Changing world extreme temperature statistics. By J.M. Finkel and J.I. Katz in the International Journal of Climatology.

Nonlinear response of tropical lower-stratospheric temperature and water vapor to ENSO. By C.I. Garfinkel et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Computation and characterization of local sub-filter-scale energy transfers in atmospheric flows. By D. Faranda et al. in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Nucleation of nitric acid hydrates in polar stratospheric clouds by meteoric material. By A.D. James et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Descent rate models of the synchronization of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by the annual cycle in tropical upwelling. By K. Rajendran et al. in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

 

 

Discussion papers – open for comment

The Climatology of Brewer-Dobson Circulation and the Contribution of Gravity Waves. By K. Sato and S. Hirano in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effects of different stratospheric SO2 injection altitudes on stratospheric chemistry and dynamics. By S. Tilmes et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JD028146