Join the 6th SPARC General Assembly from 1st to 5th October 2018 in Kyoto, Japan!

Abstract submission is already open. (Abstract submission deadline: 1  April 2018)  Sumit your abstract here.

Awards will be made to the best presentations by Early Career Scientists (ECS) in each of the six science themes of the conference.

For Early Career Scientists we offer a limited amount of travel  support, for which you can apply separately. (Travel support request deadline: 15 March 2018)

Early-bird registration will open on 15 April 2018.

We are still awaiting answers from more invitees around the globe.  Find an updated version of the list, along with more information on  the science themes, venue, registration details, and more on the  conference web pages:  http://www-mete.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/SPARC_GA2018/index.html or  http://www.aparc-climate.org/meetings/general-assembly-2018/.

We look forward to a great conference, and hope you will join in!

See you in Kyoto!

Download the 2nd announcement.

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

Forced decadal changes in the East Asian summer monsoon: the roles of greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols. By F. Tian et al. in Climate Dynamics.

Characterizing Stratospheric Polar Vortex Variability With Computer Vision Techniques. By Z.D. Lawrence, and G.L. Manney in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Effects of Greenhouse Gas Increase and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion on Stratospheric Mean Age of Air in 1960-2010. By F. Li et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

DLR Conference on Climate Change 2018 – Atmospheric Research for Understanding and Mitigating Climate Change

in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

Cologne, Germany, 17-19 April 2018, www.dlr.de/ccc2018

This scientific conference aims to bring international scientists, space agencies and interested parties together with United Nations entities such as UNOOSA, UNSPIDER, UNFCCC, WMO and GCOS and thus provide a discussion forum to elaborate on the substantial challenges faced in atmospheric climate research. By encouraging an open exchange of ideas we hope to facilitate the implementation of suitable measures to support the requirements as outlined in the Paris Agreement.

During the conference, invited oral presentations will be given by renowned experts in the field. In addition, there will be a dedicated poster session for contributed papers.

Please visit www.dlr.de/ccc2018 for further information.

Online registration is now possible. Online registration closes on April 3, 2018. The deadline for abstract submission for poster presentations is March 15th, 2018 . Please note that hotel accommodation at reduced rates is available until March 6^th, 2018.

The February 2018 edition of the newsletter is now available online:

http://www.aparc-climate.org/publications/newsletter/sparc-newsletter-no-50/

You can browse through individual workshop reports or download the complete issue in a small or in a large version for print.

Enjoy reading through an interesting collection of workshop reports and SPARC science descriptions.

 

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

Rossby Wave Propagation into the Northern Hemisphere Stratosphere: The Role of Zonal Phase Speed. By D.I.V. Domeisen, O. Martius, and B. Jiménez-Esteve in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Seasonal persistence of circulation anomalies in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere, and its implications for the troposphere. By N.J. Byrne and T.G. Shepherd in the Journal of Climate.

Weakly or strongly nonlinear mesoscale dynamics close to the tropopause? By Q. Li and E. Linborg in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Global patterns of declining temperature variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. By K. Rehfeld, T. Münch, S.L. Ho, and T. Laepple in Nature.

Stratospheric Smoke With Unprecedentedly High Backscatter Observed by Lidars Above Southern France. By S.M. Khaykin et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Satellite Observations of Stratospheric Gravity Waves Associated with the Intensification of Tropical Cyclones. By L. Hoffmann, X. Wu, and M.J. Alexander in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Mountain Wave Propagation under Transient Tropospheric Forcing A DEEPWAVE Case Study. By T.C. Portele et al. in the Monthly Weather Review.

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

Optimizing the definition of a sudden stratospheric warming. By A.H. Butler and E.P. Gerber in the Journal of Climate.

Ten Year Analysis of Tropopause-Overshooting Convection Using GridRad Data. By J.W. Cooney et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Mechanisms Governing Interannual Variability of Stratosphere-to-Troposphere Ozone Transport. By J.R. Albers et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Climate impact of idealized winter polar mesospheric and stratospheric ozone losses as caused by energetic particle precipitation. By K. Meraner and H. Schmidt in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Discussion papers – open for comment

Volcanic impact on the climate – the stratospheric aerosol load in the period 2006–2015. By J. Friberg et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Size-Resolved Stratospheric Aerosol Distributions after Pinatubo Derived from a Coupled Aerosol-Chemistry-Climate Model. By T. Sukhodolev et al. in Geoscientific Model Development.

The conference will be held 17-21 September 2018 at NCAR, Boulder, USA.

The calls for abstracts and applications for financial support are now open with deadline 16 March 2018.

Find more details on the conference web site.

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, and ISSI-BJ in Beijing, China, invite proposals for establishing International Teams to conduct on their premises research activities in Space Sciences, based on the interdisciplinary analysis and evaluation of data from spacecraft, and possible integration with ground data and theoretical models. The Call is open to scientists of any nationality, actively involved in the following research fields:

1. Space Sciences (Magnetospheric and Space Plasma Physics, Solar-Terrestrial Sciences, Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Planetary Sciences, Astrobiology, Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Fundamental Physics in Space)

2. Earth Sciences using space data

Deadlines for proposals:

Letter of Intent due:                  February 20, 2018

Online proposal Submission:      March 28, 2018

More details: ISSI_ISSI-BJ_annual_call2018

A Joint AerChemMIP / RFMIP / PDRMIP Workshop in Support of CMIP6

Dates: 11-15 June 2018

Venue: University of Reading, Reading, UK

Theme: New Science opportunities from CMIP6 multi-model forcing response experiments.

The Joint workshop will focus on the use of multi-model experiments to quantify the effective radiative forcing driven by changes in composition and the consequent climate responses. Data from idealised experiments are already available from PDRMIP. For the first time in CMIP, forcing data from all the CMIP6 climate models will be generated under the RFMIP protocols, and further broken down by forcing component in RFMIP and AerChemMIP.

Workshop goals:

1. To discuss RFMIP and AerChemMIP experiments and plan analyses
2. To discuss the scientific results coming from PDRMIP and related analyses and the potential for new science from CMIP6 on composition, forcing and response.

This workshop will be of interest to all those analysing/planning to analyse model forcing and response. Attendance from modelling centres contributing to RFMIP or AerChemMIP experiments is encouraged.

Find more details in the 1st Announcement (PDF)

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

Probabilities of causation of climate changes. By A. Hannart and P. Naveau in the Journal of Climate.

Global Average Temperatures in 2017 Continued Upward Trend. By. J. Wendel (Editorial) in Earth & Space Science News (EOS).

A closer look at the relationships between meridional mass circulation pulses in the stratosphere and cold air outbreak patterns in northern hemispheric winter. By Y. Yu et al. in Climate Dynamics.

Effect of gravity waves from small islands in the Southern Ocean on the Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation. By C.I. Garfinkel and L.D. Oman in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Process-level improvements in CMIP5 models and their impact on tropical variability, the Southern Ocean, and monsoons. By A. Laurer et al. in Earth System Dynamics.

The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment archive of water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses. By M. Schröder et al. in Earth System Science Data.

Discussion papers – open for comment

Reanalysis intercomparisons of stratospheric polar processing diagnostics. By Z.D. Lawrence, G.L. Manney, and K. Wargan in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions