Open Call for SPARC SSG Membership

SPARC leadership is composed of experts from around the world who dedicate their time to SPARC’s international activities. These include the SPARC Scientific Steering Group (SSG), who serve to guide SPARC’s scientific focus. SPARC is now accepting nominations (or self-nominations) for SSG membership to serve from January 2018 – December 2020 (initial three-year term can be extended by two additional years).

If you are interested please complete the online form available here.

The deadline for nominations is 30 September 2016.

Summer School on Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics
Reunion Island, 28 November – 3 December 2016

The Maïdo Observatory Summer School (MOSS) will focus on troposphere‐stratosphere composition and dynamics. The MOSS is intended to further develop understanding of monitoring techniques, processes and changes in the Earth’s atmosphere (troposphere and stratosphere) with emphasis on dynamics, long‐term evolution of atmospheric composition, and climate change. The academic activities will be based on courses and training in accordance with SPARC (Stratosphere‐ troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) activities and with its strategy in terms of capacity development.

The School is scheduled for 6 days of coursework and is open to PhD students and early career researchers in the field of instrumentation and atmospheric sciences.

See the summer school website for further information:
lacy.univ-reunion.fr/formation/summer-school

 

SPARC Report No. 7: The Mystery of Carbon Tetrachloride

The seventh SPARC science report on ‘The Mystery of Carbon Tetrachloride’ is now available!
Find the full report here: www.sparc-climate.org/publications/sparc-reports/sparc-report-no7

SPARC Newsletter No. 47: July 2016

The July 2016 edition of the newsletter is now available online: http://www.aparc-climate.org/fileadmin/customer/6_Publications/Newsletter_PDF/SPARCnewsletter_No47_July2016_web.pdf

In the interest of the environment, as of July 2017 SPARC will no longer produce printed versions of the newsletter.
Sign up to receive the digital version here:
www.sparc-climate.org/publications/newsletter/registration

Other publications of interest:

• NASA JPL No.15-10 – Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data Us in Atmospheric Studies
• Bern University – Tambora and the year without a Summer

Journal special issues:

Chemistry-Climate Modelling Initiative – Joint Special Issue in ACP/AMT/ESSD/GMT
Open for submissions.

SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project – Special Issue in ACP
Open for submissions.

Water Vapour Intercomparison II (WAVAS-II) – Joint Special Issue in ACP/AMT/ESSD
Open for submissions.

 

EGU Meeting Support – Submission period from 1 June – 31 July

The EGU encourages individual scientists, working groups or committees to submit proposals for EGU topical meetings, training schools and workshops, as well as applications for EGU sponsorship of external meetings.

The next call for EGU co-sponsored meetings is now open and runs from 1 June – 31 July.

For more details see: www.egu.eu/meetings/support-request

AGU Fall Meeting 12-16 December 2016 – Abstract deadline: 3 August

SPARC-related sessions:

A016: Atmospheric Trace Species: Budget and transport of stratospheric-ozone-related and climate-related trace gases
Convenors: Paul A. Newman, Qing Liang, Guus J M Velders, and Stefan Reimann

A017: Atmospheric Trace Species: Observations and Analyses of the Effects of Changing Atmospheric Composition on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate
Convenors: Michael J. Kurylo III,  Anne M. Thompson, Joris P. Veefkind, and Martyn Chipperfield

A064: Large-scale atmospheric transport and mixing: observations, modeling and theory
Conveners: Chengji Liu, Elizabeth A Barnes, Clara Orbe, Gang Chen

SA005: Atmospheric gravity wave sources, propagation, instabilities, and regional and global effects from the surface into the thermosphere and ionosphere
Conveners: David C. Fritts, Michael J. Taylor, Kaoru Sato, Erdal Yigit

A086: Processes and linkages in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: observations and models
Conveners: Rei Ueyama, William John Randel, Tao Wang

A099: The dynamical processes of stratosphere-troposphere interactions and their relationship with climate
Conveners: Marianna Linz, Aditi Sheshadri, Alison Ming, Peter Hitchcock

A003: Advances in High Resolution Climate Modeling in the atmosphere
Conveners: Philip J Rasch, Shaocheng Xie, Julio T Bacmeister, Jon Petch

A049: Evaluating Reanalysis: Learning about past weather and climate
Conveners: Jan Dominik Keller, Masatomo Fujiwara, Sean M. Davis

A037: Data Assimilation, Inverse Methods, Reanalysis, and Observing System Simulation Experiments
Conveners: Isaac Moradi, Thomas Auligne, Nancy L. Baker, Zhaoxia Pu

WCRP/WWRP International Prize for Model Development

WCRP and WWRP have established an International Prize for Model Development, awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to weather and climate model development by an early- to mid-career researcher.

More details on eligibility, required nomination material and selection process can be found at www.wcrp-climate.org/wmac-activities/ipmd2016

Nominations of suitable candidates should be forwarded to the WCRP (mrixen (at) wmo.int) and WWRP (pruti (at) wmo.int), and must be received by 1 October 2016.

WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize

WCRP and GCOS have established an International Data Prize, awarded annually to honour achievements in (climate) data product generation, data management, data preservation, data monitoring, and other data relevant activities by an early- to mid-career researcher.

More details on eligibility, required nomination material and selection process can be found at www.wcrp-climate.org/wdac-activities/idp2016

Nominations of suitable candidates should be forwarded to the WCRP (mrixen (at) wmo.int) and GCOS (gcosjpo (at) wmo.int), and must be received by 1 October 2016.

 

ISSAOS 2016 summer school “Advanced Programming Techniques for the Earth System Science”
28 Aug – 2 Sep 2016
Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy

Training School: Convective and volcanic clouds detection, monitoring and modelling
9 – 28 Oct 2016
Tarquinia, Italy

SPARC encourages early career scientists to join the Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community. YESS unifies early career researchers in an influential network and communication platform to promote local and global exchange across multiple disciplines related to Earth system sciences. Join the YESS community by going to www.yess-community.org

 

WGNE/SPARC Drag Processes Workshop
12-15 September
Reading, UK

SPARC QBO Workshop
26-30 September
Oxford, UK

SPARC DA Workshop 
17-19 October
Victoria, BC, Canada

S-RIP 2016 Workshop
19-21 October
Victoria, BC, Canada

Challenges for climate science – Synergies between SPARC and the WCRP Grand Challenges
31 October – 1 November
Berlin, Germany

WAVAS II Meeting 
30 November – 3 December
Karlsruhe, Germany

Find all SPARC meetings

 

41st COSPAR Assembly
30 July – 6 August
Istanbul, Turkey

13th AOGS Annual Meeting
31 July – 5 August
Peking, China

Quadrennial Ozone Symposium (QOS)
4-9 September
Edinburgh, Scotland

QOS Side-Meeting: Ozone Profile Trend Uncertainty
9-10 September
Edinburgh, Scotland

International Symposium on the Whole Atmosphere 
14-16 September
Tokyo, Japan

Physics Dynamics Coupling in Weather and Climate Models
20 – 22 Sep 2016
Richland, Washington, USA

CLIVAR Open Science Conference
19-23 September
Qingdao, China

WGCM Model Hierarchies Workshop
2-4 November
Princeton, USA

11th MIPAS-IMK/IAA data user meeting
26 – 27 October
Karlsruhe, Germany

AGU Fall Meeting
12-16 December
San Francisco, USA

Find more SPARC-related meetings

Find more meetings organised by the WCRP community

• Fast descent routes from within or near the stratosphere to the surface at Fukuoka, Japan, studied using 7Be measurements and trajectory calculations. By H. Ito and Y. Narazaki in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Limitations of ozone data assimilation with adjustment of NOx emissions: mixed effects on NO2 forecasts over Beijing and surrounding areas. By X. Tang et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• The non-Gaussianity and spatial asymmetry of temperature extremes relative to the storm track: the role of horizontal advection. By C.I. Garfinkel and N. Harnik in the Journal of Climate.
• Towards a chemical reanalysis in a coupled chemistry-climate model: An evaluation of MOPITT CO assimilation and its impact on tropospheric composition. By B. Gaubert et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• An intensified hydrological cycle in the simulation of geoengineering by cirrus cloud thinning using ice crystal fall speed changes. By L.S. Jackson et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Convective Transport of Formaldehyde to the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere and Associated Scavenging in Thunderstorms over the Central United States during the 2012 DC3 Study. By A. Fried et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Impact of major volcanic eruptions on stratospheric water vapour. By M. Löffler et al. inAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Space-based detection of missing sulfur dioxide sources of global air pollution. By C.A. McLinden et al. in Nature Geoscience.
• Distinct effects of anthropogenic aerosols on the East Asian summer monsoon between multi-decadal strong and weak monsoon stages. By X. Xie et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Ubiquitous Influence of Waves on Tropical High Cirrus Cloud. By J.-E. Kim et al. inGeophysical Research Letters.
• 30 years of upper air soundings on board of R/V POLARSTERN. By A. Driemel et al. in Earth System Science Data.
• Spectral distribution of gravity wave momentum fluxes over the antarctic peninsula from concordiasi super-pressure balloon data. By R.L. Walterscheid et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research Letters: Atmospheres.
• Summertime nitrate aerosol in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over the Tibetan Plateau and the South Asian summer monsoon region. By Y. Gu et al. inAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Representation of the tropical stratospheric zonal wind in global atmospheric reanalyses. By Y. Kawatani et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Ground-based assessment of the bias and long-term stability of 14 limb and occultation ozone profile data records. By D. Hubert et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• An Observationally Constrained Evaluation of the Oxidative Capacity in the Tropical Western Pacific Troposphere. By J.M. Nicely et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Decadal climate prediction with a refined anomaly initialisation approach. By D. Volpi et al. in Climate Dynamics.
• Sensitivity of volcanic aerosol dispersion to meteorological conditions: a Pinatubo case study. By A.C. Jones et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Role of quasiresonant planetary wave dynamics in recent boreal spring-to-autumn extreme events. By V. Petroukhov et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
• Future Aerosol Reductions and Widening of the Northern Tropical Belt. By R.J. Allen and O. Ajoku in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Zonal-mean circulation response to reduced air-sea momentum roughness. By I. Polichtchouk and T.G. Shepherd in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
• A two-dimensional Stockwell transform for gravity wave analysis of AIRS measurements. By N.P. Hindley et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• High-frequency gravity waves and homogeneous ice nucleation in tropical tropopause layer cirrus. By E.J. Jensen et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• High-resolution tropospheric carbon monoxide profiles retrieved from CrIS and TROPOMI. By D. Fu et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• The Impact of GCM Dynamical Cores on Idealized Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and their QBO Interactions. By W. Jao and C. Jablonowski in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Simulated 2050 aviation radiative forcing from contrails and aerosols. By C.-C. Chen and A. Gettelman in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Reversal of global atmospheric ethane and propane trends largely due to US oil and natural gas production. By D. Helmig et al. in Nature Geoscience.
• Tuning of a convective gravity wave source scheme based on HIRDLS observations. By Q.T. Trinh et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• The linkage between stratospheric water vapor and surface temperature in an observation-constrained coupled general circulation model. By Y. Wang et al. in Climate Dynamics.
• On the ambiguous nature of the 11-year solar cycle signal in upper stratospheric ozone. By S.S. Dhomse et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• Classification of stratospheric extreme events according to their downward propagation to the troposphere. By T. Runde et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• The impact of lightning on tropospheric ozone chemistry using a new global lightning parametrisation. By D.L. Finney et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• MiKlip – a National Research Project on Decadal Climate Prediction. By J. Marotzke et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
• New and improved infrared absorption cross sections for chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22). By J.J. Harrison in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• Missing orographic drag leads to climate model biases in jet streams, blocking and storm tracks. By F. Pithan et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• Results from the validation campaign of the ozone radiometer GROMOS-C at the NDACC station of Réunion island. By S. Fernandez et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• MJO-related intraseasonal variation of gravity waves in the southern hemisphere tropical stratosphere revealed by high-resolution airs observations. By C. Tsuchiya et al. in theJournal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Diverse policy implications for future ozone and surface UV in a changing climate. By A.H. Butler et al. in Environmental Research Letters.
• Strong modification of stratospheric ozone forcing by cloud and sea-ice adjustments. By Y. Xia et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• The Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S) Project Database. By F. Vitart et al in theBulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
• Tracking the delayed response of the northern winter stratosphere to ENSO using multi reanalyses and model simulations. By R. Ren et al. in Climate Dynamics.
• Understanding the links between subtropical and extratropical circulation responses to climate change using aquaplanet model simulations. By T. Shaw and A. Voigt in the Journal of Climate.
• Impact of geographic variations of the convective and dehydration center on stratospheric water vapor over the Asian monsoon region. By K. Zhang et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Reconciling the Observed and Modeled Southern Hemisphere Circulation Response to Volcanic Eruptions. By M.C. McGraw et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• The response of high-impact blocking weather systems to climate change. By D. Kennedy et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• Emergence of healing in the Antarctic ozone layer. By S. Solomon et al. in Science.
• Persistence of upper stratospheric wintertime tracer variability into the Arctic spring and summer. By D.E. Siskind et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Direct injection of water vapor into the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions. By C.E. Sioris et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.
• Gravity-wave effects on tracer gases and stratospheric aerosol concentrations during the 2013 ChArMEx campaign. By F. Chane Ming et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• UV and infrared absorption spectra, atmospheric lifetimes, and ozone depletion and global warming potentials for CCl2FCCl2F (CFC-112), CCl3CClF2 (CFC-112a), CCl3CF3 (CFC-113a), and CCl2FCF3 (CFC-114a). By M.E. Davis et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Regional and Seasonal Stratospheric Temperature Trends in the Last Decade (2002-2014) from AMSU observations. By B.M. Funatsu et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• The STRatospheric Estimation Algorithm from Mainz (STREAM): estimating stratospheric NO2from nadir-viewing satellites by weighted convolution. By S. Beirie et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• North Atlantic summer storm tracks over Europe dominated by internal variability over the past millennium. By M.H. Gagen et al. in Nature Geoscience.
• The millennium water vapour drop in chemistry–climate model simulations. By S. Brinkop et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Quantifying Eddy Feedbacks and Forcings in the Tropospheric Response to Stratospheric Sudden Warmings. By P. Hitchcock and I.R. Simpson in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.
• Impact of Aerosols on Precipitation from Deep Convective Clouds in Eastern China. By M. Jiang et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• Hybrid ensemble 4DVar assimilation of stratospheric ozone using a global shallow water model. By D.R. Allen et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Evidence of global warming impact on the evolution of the Hadley Circulation in ECMWF centennial reanalyses. By R. D’Agostino and P. Lionello in Climate Dynamics.
• On the climatological probability of the vertical propagation of stationary planetary waves. By K. Karami et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Observations of PAN and its confinement in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone in high spatial resolution. By J. Ungermann et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Chemical analysis of refractory stratospheric aerosol particles collected within the arctic vortex and inside polar stratospheric clouds. By M. Ebert et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• The Transient Response of the Southern Ocean to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. By W.J.M. Seviour et al. in the Journal of Climate.
• Tropical waves and the quasi-biennial oscillation in a 7-km global climate simulation. By L.A. Holt et al. in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Effects of polar stratospheric clouds in the Nimbus 7 LIMS Version 6 data set. By E. Remsberg and V.L. Harvey in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
• A comparative analysis of UV nadir-backscatter and infrared limb-emission ozone data assimilation. By R. Dragani in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• The Impact of SST Biases on Projections of Anthropogenic Climate Change: A Greater Role for Atmosphere-only Models? By J. He and B.J. Soden in Geophysical Research Letters.
• Assessing risks of solar geoengineering starts with accurate aerosol radiative properties. By J.A. Dykema et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.