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

 

Do CMIP5 models reproduce observed low‐frequency North Atlantic jet variability? By T.J. Bracegirdle et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Data assimilation in the geosciences: An overview of methods, issues, and perspectives. By A. Cerrassi et al. in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change.

The momentum budget in the stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere Part 1: Contribution of different wave types and in situ generation of Rossby waves. By K. Sato, R. Yasui, and Y. Miyoshi in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

The momentum budget in the stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere Part 2: The in situ generation of gravity waves. By R. Yasui, K. Sato, and Y. Miyoshi in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Stratospheric aerosol evolution after Pinatubo simulated with a coupled size-resolved aerosol–chemistry–climate model, SOCOL-AERv1.0. By T. Sukhodolov et al. in Geoscientific Model Development.

 

Discussion papers – open of comments:

Mesoscale fine structure of a tropopause fold over mountains. By W. Woiwode et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.