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

Thunderstorms enhance tropospheric ozone by wrapping and shedding stratospheric air. By L.L. Pan et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Total volcanic stratospheric aerosol optical depths and implications for global climate change. By D.A. Ridley et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Airborne verification of CALIPSO products over the Amazon: a case study of daytime observations in a complex atmospheric scene. By F. Marenco et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Biogenic SOA formation through gas-phase oxidation and gas-to-particle partitioning – a comparison between process models of varying complexity. By E. Hermansson et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Application of GPS radio occultation to the assessment of temperature profile retrievals from microwave and infrared sounders. By M. Feltz et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Recalibration and Merging of SSU Observations for Stratospheric Temperature Trend Studies. By C.-Z. Zou et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Improving stratospheric transport trend analysis based on SF₆ and CO₂ measurements. By. E.A. Ray et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Variability of Antarctic ozone loss in the last decade (2004–2013): high resolution simulations compared to Aura MLS observations. By J. Kuttippurath et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Satellite observations of stratospheric carbonyl fluoride. By J.J. Harrison et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.