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

 

Spatiotemporal variability and trends in global solar radiation over Poland based on satellite‐derived data (1986–2015). By K. Kulesza in the International Journal of Climatology.

Towards an unbiased stratospheric analysis. By P. Laloyaux et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Dehydration and low ozone in the tropopause layer over the Asian monsoon caused by tropical cyclones: Lagrangian transport calculations using ERA-Interim and ERA5 reanalysis data. By D. Li et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

CASEarth Poles: Big Data for the Three Poles. By X. Li et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Progress in simulating the Quasi‐biennial Oscillation in CMIP models. By J.H. Richter et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Jet Latitude Regimes and the Predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation. By K. Strommen in the the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Can the world’s most influential climate report carry on? Nature News Q&A with Valérie Masson-Delmotte by Jeff Toffefson.

How COVID-19 could ruin weather forecasts and climate records. Nature news article by G. Viglione.

 

Discussion papers – open for comment:

Airborne measurements and large-eddy simulations of small-scale Gravity Waves at the tropopause inversion layer over Scandinavia. By S. Gisinger et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.