SPARC Science update: 10 September –16 September

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

 

Advancing Research for Seamless Earth System Prediction. By P. Ruti et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Techniques and challenges in the assimilation of atmospheric water observations for numerical weather prediction towards convective scales. By R.N. Bannister, H. Chiplski, and O. Martinez-Alvarado in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

An expanded definition of the odd oxygen family for tropospheric ozone budgets: Implications for ozone lifetime and stratospheric influence. By K.H. Bates and D.J. Jacob in the Geophysical Research Letters.

The effect of atmospheric nudging on the stratospheric residual circulation in chemistry–climate models. By A. Chrysanthou et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Physical mechanisms controlling the offshore propagation of convection in the tropics. Part I: Flat island. By D. Coppin and G. Bellon in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Physical mechanisms controlling the offshore propagation of convection in the tropics. Part II: Influence of topography. By D. Coppin and G. Bellon in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Assimilation of satellite data in numerical weather prediction. Part I: the early years. By J.R. Eyre, S.J. English, and M. Forsythe in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Evaluating the Joint Influence of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation and the Stratospheric Polar Vortex on Weather Patterns in the Northern Hemisphere. By M.R. green and J.C. Furtado in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

A stochastic representation of temperature fluctuations induced by mesoscale gravity waves. By B. Kärcher and A. Podglajen in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Changes in mean flow and atmospheric wave activity in the North Atlantic sector. By H. Paeth and F. Pollinger in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Monsoon Mission: A targeted activity to improve monsoon prediction across scales. By S.A. Rao et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

 

Discussion papers – open for comment:

Response of middle atmospheric temperature to the solar 27-day cycle: an analysis of 13 years of MLS data. By P. Rong et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.