SPARC Science update: 1 September – 7 September

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

 

Seasonal Variation of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation Descent. By L. Coy et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

CMIP6 climate models imply high committed warming. By C. Huntingford, M.S. Williamson, and F.J.M.M. Nijsse in Climatic Change.

Lidar observations of large‑amplitude mountain waves in the stratosphere above Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. By N. Kaifler et al. in Scientific Reports.

Far‐ranging impact of mountain waves excited over Greenland on stratospheric dehydration and rehydration. By R. Kivi et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Sensitivity of trends to estimation methods and quantification of subsampling effects in global radiosounding temperature and humidity time series. By SY Souleyname et al. in the International Journal of Climatology.

The anomalous 2019 Antarctic ozone hole in the GEOS Constituent Data Assimilation System with MLS observations. By K. Wargan et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Seasonal Forecasts of the Twentieth Century. By A. Weisheimer et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

 

Discussion papers – open for comment:

Upward transport into and within the Asian monsoon anticyclone as inferred from StratoClim trace gas observations. By M. von Hobe et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.