SPARC Science update: 30 July –5 August

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

 

Variations in the vertical profile of ozone at four high-latitude Arctic sites from 2005 to 2017. By S. Bahramvash Shams et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Global ozone depletion and increase of UV radiation caused by pre-industrial tropical volcanic eruptions. By H. Brenna, S. Kutterolf and K. Krüger in Scientific Reports.

How Is Recent Arctic Warming Impacting East Asian Weather? By S.-J. Kim, B.-M. Kim, and J. Ukita in Earth and Space Science news (EOS).

Tropopause altitude determination from temperature profile measurements of reduced vertical resolution. By N. König, P. Braesicke, and T. von Clarmann in Atmospheric measurement Techniques.

Abrupt stratospheric vortex weakening associated with North Atlantic anticyclonic wave breaking. By S.H. Lee et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Impacts of the ENSO Lifecycle on Stratospheric Ozone and Temperature. By J. Lin and T. Qian in the Geophysical Research Letters.

The polar stratosphere as an arbiter of the projected tropical versus polar tug‐of‐war. By Y. Peings, J. Cattiaux, and G. Magnusdottir in the Geophyical Research Letters.

Evaluation of wake influence on high-resolution balloon-sonde measurements. By J. Söder et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

A geostatistical framework for quantifying the imprint of mesoscale atmospheric transport on satellite trace gas retrievals. By A.D. Tores et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Radiative Feedbacks Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation. By B. Zhang et al. in the Journal of the Climate.

 

Discussion papers – open for comments:

Improved Water Vapour retrieval from AMSU-B/MHS in polar regions. By A.M. Triana-Gómez et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Determining the Daytime Earth Radiative Flux from National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR) Measurements. By W. Su et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

The efficiency of transport into the stratosphere via the Asian and North American summer monsoon circulations. By X. Yan et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.