A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
User Needs for Weather and Climate Information: 2019 NCEI Users’ Conference. By M.J. Brewer et al. in the Bulletin of the American meteorological Society.
Ozone Transport‐Radiation Feedbacks in the Tropical Tropopause Layer. By E.J. Charlesworth, T. Birner, and J.R. Albers in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Enhanced extended‐range Predictability of the 2018 late‐winter Eurasian Cold Spell due to the Stratosphere. By L.-A. Kautz et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Recent Progress and Future Prospects of Sub-Seasonal and Seasonal Climate Predictions. By Y.-M. Min et al. in the Bulletin of the American meteorological Society.
Oblique Gravity Wave Propagation during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings. By C.C. Stephan et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Reflection of nonlinear mountain waves by critical levels: behaviour of the reflection coefficient. By M.A.C. Teixeira, J.L. Argain, and X. Xu in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
A 16-year dataset (2000–2015) of high-resolution (3 h, 10 km) global surface solar radiation. By W. Tang et al. in Earth System Science Data.
What can we learn about orographic drag parametrization from high‐resolution models? A case study over the Rocky mountains. By S.B. Vosper et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Warming reduces predictability. By N. Yuan and Z. Lu in nature climate change.
Discussion papers – open for comment:
Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873. By Y. Brugnara et al. in Earth System Science Data.
LIMS observations of lower stratospheric ozone in the southern polar springtime of 1978. By E. Remsberg et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Small-scale variability of stratospheric ozone during the SSW 2018/2019 observed at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. By F. Schranz et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.