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

Significant uncertainty in the representation of orography in numerical weather prediction and implications for atmospheric drag and circulation. By A.D. Elvidge et al. in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Weakening of the teleconnection from El Niño‐Southern Oscillation to the Arctic stratosphere over the past few decades: What can be learned from subseasonal forecast models? By C.I. Garfinkel et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Radiative Convective Equilibrium and Organized Convection: An Observational Perspective. By C. Jacob, M.S. Singh, and L. Jungandreas in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Rising methane: A new climate challenge. By S.E. Mikaloff Fletcher and H. Schaefer in Science.

Strongly coupled data assimilation in multiscale media: experiments using a quasi‐geostrophic coupled model. By S.G. Penny et al. in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Extratropical age of air trends and causative factors in climate projection simulations. By P. Šácha et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

 

Discussion papers – open for comment:

Attribution of Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) ozone radiative flux bias from satellites. By L. Kuai et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.