This year’s ERC Workshop entitled “Towards Regional Information to Improve our Understanding on Weather, Water and Climate Extreme Events” takes place on 3-5 May 2018 in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.
Note the abstract submission deadline is 18 December!
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Find the December 2017 edition of WCRP news which features the SPARC project by way of WCRP’s core project spotlight.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
Nonlinear Bias Correction For Satellite Data Assimilation Using Taylor Series Polynomials. By J.A. Otkin et al. in the Monthly Weather Review.
Changing circulation structure and precipitation characteristics in Asian monsoon regions: greenhouse warming vs. aerosol effects. By W.K.M. Lau et al. in the Geoscience Letters.
Driving Roles of Tropospheric and Stratospheric Thermal Anomalies in Intensification and Persistence of the Arctic Superstorm in 2012. By W. Tao et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Advancing Climate Forecasting. By W.J. Merryfield et al. in Earth & Space Science News.
Development of a Polar Stratospheric Cloud Model Within the Community Earth System Model: Assessment of 2010 Antarctic Winter. By Y. Zhu et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Observing the Impact of Calbuco Volcanic Aerosols on South Polar Ozone Depletion in 2015. By K.A. Stone et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
A Model and Satellite-Based Analysis of the Tropospheric Ozone Distribution in Clear Versus Convectively Cloudy Conditions. By S.A. Strode et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Significant Contributions of Volcanic Aerosols to Decadal Changes in the Stratospheric Circulation. By M. Diallo et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Formaldehyde in the Tropical Western Pacific: Chemical Sources and Sinks, Convective Transport, and Representation in CAM-Chem and the CCMI Models. By D.C. Anderson et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
The WCRP Working Group on Subseasonal and Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP) facilitates coordination of climate modelling through a programme of numerical experimentation.
Find an EOS article from 27 November 2017 on WCRP’s efforts in coordinating research which aims at improving and extending global climate forecasting capabilities.
On 1 December, SPARC celebrated its 25th anniversary and, after six years of operation in Zurich, the move of its international project office from ETH Zurich to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen – its fourth destination after Paris, Toronto and Zurich.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
The link between eddy-driven jet variability and weather regimes in the North Atlantic-European sector. By E. Madonna et al in the Quaterly Journal of the Royal meteorological Society.
Effect of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on lower stratospheric water vapor and comparison with the effect of ENSO. By X. Zhou et al. in the Journal of Climate.
A New Paradigm for Diagnosing Contributions to Model Aerosol Forcing Error. By A.L. Jones et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Recently amplified arctic warming has contributed to a continual global warming trend. By J. Huang et al in Nature climate change.
Improved Winter European Atmospheric Blocking Frequencies in High-Resolution Global Climate Simulations. By P. Davini et al. in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
Prominent mid-latitude circulation signature in High Asia’s surface climate during monsoon. By T. Mölg et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Stratospheric Intrusion-Influenced Ozone Air Quality Exceedances Investigated in the NASA MERRA-2 Reanalysis. By K. E. Knowland et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Differential Radiative Heating Drives Tropical Atmospheric Circulation Weakening. By Y. Xia and Y. Huang in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Climate Impacts of CALIPSO-Guided Corrections to Black Carbon Aerosol Vertical Distributions in a Global Climate Model. By M. Kovilakam et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Bifurcation of potential vorticity gradients across the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex. By J. Conway, et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.
Role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in decadal temperature trends. By C. Iles and G. Hegerl in the Environmental Research Letters.
A Census of Atmospheric Variability From Seconds to Decades. By P.D. Williams et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
On 30 November 2017, 1:15-2:45 PM Eastern Time, the non-profit organisation National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is holding a webinar on Climate Science, Impacts, and Policy Today: the 4th National Climate Assessment and Outcomes from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, COP-23.
View the programme and register at www.NCSEGlobal.org.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
Equatorward dispersion of a high-latitude volcanic plume and its relation to the Asian summer monsoon: a case study of the Sarychev eruption in 2009. By X. Wu et al in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Maintaining Momentum in Climate Model Development. Comment by C.C. Ummenhofer et al. in Earth & Space Science News.
How predictable are the Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations? Exploring the Variability and Predictability of the Northern Hemisphere. By D. Domeisen et al in the Journal of Climate.
Impacts of Horizontal Propagation of Orographic Gravity Waves on the Wave Drag in the Stratosphere and Lower Mesosphere. By X. Xu et al in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Origin of the 2016 QBO Disruption and Its Relationship to Extreme El Niño Events. By C.A. Barton and J.P. McCormack in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Relationships Between Gravity Waves Observed at Earth’s Surface and in the Stratosphere Over the Central and Eastern United States. By C.D. de Groot-Hedlin et al in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Onset of Stratospheric Ozone Recovery in the Antarctic Ozone Hole in Assimilated Daily Total Ozone Columns. By A.T.J. Laat et al in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
Special Issue “Global data systems for the study of solar-terrestrial variability”. By T. Watanabe et al. in Earth Planets and Space.
Impacts of Mt Pinatubo volcanic aerosol on the tropical stratosphere in chemistry–climate model simulations using CCMI and CMIP6 stratospheric aerosol data. By L.E. Revell et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Radiative and chemical response to interactive stratospheric sulfate aerosols in fully coupled CESM1(WACCM). By M.J.Mills et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
How Will Climate Change Affect the United States in Decades to Come? By D. Wuebbles et al. in Earth & Space Science News.
Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models: Nature, Origins, and Way Forward. By A. Zadra et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Does Strong Tropospheric Forcing Cause Large-Amplitude Mesospheric Gravity Waves? A DEEPWAVE Case Study. By M. Bramberger et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Significant Contributions of Volcanic Aerosols to Decadal Changes in the Stratospheric Circulation. By M. Diallo et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Formaldehyde in the Tropical Western Pacific: Chemical Sources and Sinks, Convective Transport, and Representation in CAM-Chem and the CCMI Models. By D.C. Anderson in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
The 2nd Pan-GASS meeting on Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes will take place on 26 February – 2 March 2018 in Lorne, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Global Atmospheric System Studies (GASS) panel supports the international community that carries out and uses observations, process studies, and numerical model experiments with the goal of developing and improving the representation of atmospheric processes in weather and climate models.
Abstract submission closes on 31 October 2017.
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