SPARC Science update: 04 October – 10 October

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


Analysis of turbulence reports and ERA5 turbulence diagnostics in a tropopause-based vertical framework. By T. Kaluza, D. Kunkel, and P. Hoor in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Diverse surface signatures of stratospheric polar vortex anomalies. By E.W. Kolstad et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Signatures of Anomalous Transport in the 2019/2020 Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex. By G.L. Manney et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.


Discussion papers – open for comment:

Distribution of cross-tropopause convection within the Asian monsoon region from May through October 2017. By C.E. Clapp et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.