Solicitation for input from the community

Copernicus is a user driven programme, which means that the users are at the centre of the programme’s design and implementation, and that Copernicus must evolve continuously to make sure that it addresses its users’ needs.

If you are, or are interested in becoming a user of Copernicus data or service information, we sincerely would appreciate your time and effort in completing this "call for interest" survey. The results will be used to identify existing users and potential users who are willing to participate in one way or another to the collection and analysis of Copernicus user needs.

This call for interest survey and the gathering of user needs will be the first building block of a process aimed at defining the high level requirements for the next generation of the Copernicus Space Component. It is thus a unique opportunity to contribute to the creation of a "fil rouge" between this Space Component and the users.

The survey is available at: www.copernicus.eu/copernicus-call-for-interest

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

Evaluating CMIP5 models using GPS radio occultation COSMIC temperature in UTLS region during 2006–2013: twenty-first century projection and trends. By P. Kishore et al. in Climate Dynamics.

Does ocean-coupling matter for the northern extra-tropical response to projected Arctic sea ice loss? By C. Deser et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Large scale atmospheric warming in winter and the Arctic sea ice retreat. By S. Dobricic et al. in the Journal of Climate.

Stratospheric gravity wave momentum flux from radio occultations. By T. Schmidt et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

The Upward Branch of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation Quantified by Tropical Stratospheric Water Vapor and Carbon Monoxide Measurements from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder. By K. Minschwaner et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Discussion papers – open for comment

A multi-wavelength classification method for polar stratospheric cloud types using infrared limb spectra. By R. Spang et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions.

Evaluation of UTLS carbon monoxide simulations in GMI and GEOS-Chem chemical transport models using Aura MLS observations. By L. Huang et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

The impact of lightning on tropospheric ozone chemistry using a new global parametrisation. By D.L. Finney et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

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

Is the Brewer-Dobson circulation increasing, or moving upward? By s. Oberländer-Hayn et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Impact of rising greenhouse gas concentrations on future tropical ozone and UV exposure. By S. Meul et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Analysis of the seasonal ozone budget and the impact of the summer monsoon on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. By B. Zhu et al. in the Journal of Geophysical research: Atmospheres.

How to most effectively expand the global surface ozone observing network. By E.D. Sofen et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Stratospheric sulfate geoengineering could enhance the terrestrial photosynthesis rate. By L. Xia et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Fostering a collaborative atmospheric chemistry research community in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. By M. Andrade-Flores et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The SPARC Data Initiative: comparisons of CFC-11, CFC-12, HF and SF6 climatologies from international satellite limb sounders. By S. Tegtmeier et al. in Earth System Science Data.

Gridded global surface ozone metrics for atmospheric chemistry model evaluation. By E.D. Sofen et al. in Earth System Science Data.

Discussion papers – open for comment

AerGOM, an improved algorithm for stratospheric aerosol extinction retrieval from GOMOS observations. Part 1: Algorithm development. By F. Vanhellemont et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions.

Influence of the sudden stratosphere warming on quasi-2 day waves. By S.Y. Gu et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

The Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss is looking for a Postdoc to study climate change and heat stress.

Find link to vacancy.

Description

This one-day colloquium brings together several of Johannes Staehelin’s distinguished colleagues and will focus on past developments and future priorities of ozone research. Ranging from changes in anthropogenic ozone precursor emissions and tropospheric pollution to climate change and stratospheric ozone, the presentations will describe our current knowledge in the field of ozone research and provide insight into open questions that still need to be answered.

Programme

The colloquium will start at 9:00 am and finish at 5:00 pm.
Registration with coffee and gipfeli will start at 8:15 am.

Download pdf version of programme.

Invited Speakers

Stefan Brönnimann, University of Bern, Switzerland
Dominik Brunner, Empa, Switzerland
Reiner Grundmann, University of Nottingham, UK
Neil Harris, University of Cambridge, UK
Michaela Hegglin, University of Reading, UK
Dave Parrish, NOAA, USA
Stefan Reimann, Empa, Switzerland
Harald Rieder, University of Graz, Austria
Richard Stolarski, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Meeting Venue and Registration

Location:

The colloquium will be held in the Audimax, ETH Zurich.

Registration:

All participants must be registered.

For more details and registration, please visit the webpage.

Letter of petition available to sign

CSIRO is cutting over 200 positions in climate-related science positions. The reported rationale is that the science debate on climate is effectively over and the research agenda should move rapidly into the mitigation/adaptation arena (see links at end of email for more info). Such a decision would have important international as well as national ramifications. These arguments are outlined in a statement which was posted on the World Climate Research Programme website yesterday morning (and tweeted, etc): www.wcrp-climate.org/rss-news-highlights.

A letter with a more detailed rationale (http://goo.gl/forms/P2JrAA0ido) will be sent to the Australian government and to CSIRO’s board later this week. It is written by Paul Durack (LLNL) and Anna Pirani (new head of IPCC WG1 TSU) and has been signed by many scientists internationally.

If you think you might like to sign this letter, it can still be signed as a show of support.

The relevance for SPARC is CSIRO’s important contribution to measurements and modeling. As more emphasis is put in on nearer term climate predictions and on understanding regional changes, large reductions in CSIRO’s capability would have a really significant impact on our overall capability in these areas.

For more information:

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-will-be-all-gone-as-csiro-swings-jobs-axe-scientists-say-20160203-gml7jy.html

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/heat-to-stay-on-csiro-climate-cuts-amid-claims-malcolm-turnbull-was-blindsided-20160207-gmnug5.html

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/08/csiro-climate-cuts-will-cost-australia-dear-world-scientists-warn-government

The National Centre for Atmospheric Science are delighted to announce the launch of the 3rd European Earth System and Climate Modelling School (3rd E2SCMS) which will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from Thursday 9 June to Tuesday, 21 June 2016.

Applications are now being accepted and the deadline for applications is 1100 UTC on Monday 21 March 2016.

For more information about the school and to apply, please go to bit.ly/E2SCMS3.

Organised jointly between NCAS, the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and the University of Barcelona, the E2SCMS Earth System and Climate Modelling Summer School is open to early career scientists (advanced PhD candidates, postdoctoral scientists, and scientific programmers) who are affiliated with European research institutions.

Hosted by the University of Helsinki, with the support of the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Supercomputing Centre, the course is delivered by international experts in Earth system and climate modelling ensuring an advanced and stimulating learning environment.

The course begins with a series of lectures, which are followed by practical sessions where participants apply what they have learnt by analysing the results of their own Earth system simulations. In this part of the course three well established Earth System Models will be used: HAD-GEM (FAMOUS), MPI-ESM, and EC-Earth, which will be run at
international supercomputing centres remotely from the course.

Registration for the school is free and students are asked only to cover the cost of travel and accommodation (some accommodation and boarding grants are available).

For more information about the school and to apply, please go to bit.ly/E2SCMS3.

If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to email .

Best wishes,
Steven Sharpe
Events and Administration Officer
National Centre for Atmospheric Science

+44 (0) 113 343 6408

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

Measurements and Modeling of Contemporary Radiocarbon in the Stratosphere. By A.M. Kanu et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

Reanalyses and Observations: What’s the difference? By W.S. Parker in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The ACRIDICON-CHUVA campaign: Studying tropical deep convective clouds and precipitation over Amazonia using the new German research aircraft HALO. By M. Wendisch et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

A wave-activity view of the relation between the Mediterranean storm track and the North Atlantic Oscillation in winter. By M. Rezaeian et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Synoptic and meteorological drivers of extreme ozone concentrations over Europe. By N. Otero et al. in Environmental Research Letters.

New approaches to quantifying aerosol influence on the cloud radiative effect. By G. Feingold et al. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Potential for long-lead prediction of the western North Pacific monsoon circulation beyond seasonal time scales. By J. Choi et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

How do carbon cycle uncertainties affect IPCC temperature projections? By R.W. Bodman et al. in Atmospheric Science Letters.

Discussion papers – open for comment

Persistance of upper stratospheric winter time tracer variability into the Arctic spring and summer. By D.E. Siskind et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Representation of the Tropical Stratospheric Zonal Wind in Global Atmospheric Reanalyses. By Y. Kawatami et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Observations of PAN and its confinement in the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone in high spatial resolution. By J. Ungermann et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Adapted ECC ozone sonde for long-duration flights aboard boundary-layer pressurized balloons. By F. Ghuesi et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Interpreting Space-Based Trends in Carbon Monoxide. By S. Strode et al in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Gravity-wave effects on tracer gases and stratospheric aerosol concentrations during the 2013 ChArMEx campaign. By F. Chane Ming et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 10 Feb 2016
Registration deadline: 30 Mar 2016

DLR Conference on Climate Change 2016 – Challenges for Atmospheric Research in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

Climate change has become one of the most important issues mankind will have to contend with in forthcoming decades. Though we are basically certain that human activity is causing global warming, the magnitude of the warming and the associated changes in the probability distributions of many climate variables are still quite uncertain. We need a better understanding of, e.g., the cloud processes and their impact on climate sensitivity.

This scientific conference aims to provide a discussion forum for international scientists, research centers and space agencies together with United Nations entities such as UNOOSA, UNFCCC, WMO and GCOS to investigate the considerable challenges in atmospheric climate research.

During the conference, invited presentations will be given by

• Prof. Dr. Guy Brasseur, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA, and MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
• Prof. Dr. John Burrows, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Matthew Collins, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
• Dr. Gerhard Ehret, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Veronika Eyring, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
• Dr. Rolando R. Garcia, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
• Dr. Sophie Godin-Beekmann, Directrice de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France
• Prof. Dr. Martin Heimann, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Jos Lelieveld, Director, MPI for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
• Dr. Norman Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
• Dr. Douglas Mach, Universities Space Research Association, Science and Technology Institute, Huntsville, AL, USA
• Dr. Matthew McGill, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA
• Dr. Louise Nuijens, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Peter, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Martin Riese, Director, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Sonia I. Seneviratne, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens, Director, MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Ted Shepherd, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
• Prof. Dr. David W. J. Thompson, Department of Atmospheric Science, CSU, Fort Collins, CO, USA
• Mr. Florin Vladu, Programme Officer, Technology, UNFCCC secretariat, Bonn, Germany

Please visit www.ccc2016.net for further information.

Online registration is now possible.

The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 10 February 2016.

We are looking forward to seeing you in April 2016!

• Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dittus, German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.)
• i.V. Prof. Dr. Markus Rapp, German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.)

Prof. Dr. Robert Sausen
Program Board
DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics
climate-conference@dlr.de
www.ccc2016.net

Organisational matters: contact@ccc2016.net

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

Modulation of the boreal wintertime Madden-Julian Oscillation by the stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. By C. Yoo and S.-W. Son in Geophysical Research Letters.

Quantification of relative contribution of Antarctic ozone depletion to increased austral extratropical precipitation during 1979-2013. By K. Bai et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

A re-evaluated Canadian ozonesonde record: measurements of the vertical distribution of ozone over Canada from 1966 to 2013. By D.W. Tarasick et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

High solar cycle spectral variations inconsistent with stratospheric ozone observations. By W.T. Ball et al. in Nature Geoscience.

Comparison of GOME-2/Metop-A ozone profiles with GOMOS, OSIRIS and MLS measurements. By A. Kauppi et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Observed and modelled tropospheric cold anomalies associated with sudden stratospheric warmings. By I. Lehtonen and A.Y. Karpechko in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Stratospheric polar vortex splits and displacements in the high-top CMIP5 climate models. By W.J. Seviour et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Brewer-Dobson circulation diagnosed from JRA-55. By C. Kobayashi and T. Iwasaki in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Discussion papers – open for comment

Upper tropospheric CO and O₃ budget during the Asian Summer Monsoon. By B. Barret et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.