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

 

Physics–Dynamics Coupling in weather, climate and Earth system models: Challenges and recent progress. By M. Gross et al. in the Monthly Weather Review.

The Importance of a Properly Represented Stratosphere for Northern Hemisphere Surface Variability in the Atmosphere and the Ocean. By S. Haase et al. in the Journal of Climate.

Ensemble-based Atmospheric Reanalysis using a Global Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean GCM. By N. Komori et al. in the Monthly Weather Review.

Impact of a stochastic nonorographic gravity wave parameterization on the stratospheric dynamics of a General Circulation Model. By F. Serva et al. in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Improving MJO simulation by enhancing the interaction between boundary layer convergence and lower tropospheric heating. By Y-M. Yang and B. Wang in Climate Dynamics.

Zonally asymmetric trends of winter total column ozone in the northern middle latitudes. By J. Zhang et al. in Climate Dynamics.