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

 

How mountains stir up a hot spot of turbulence. By E. Hand in Science.

The ERA5 Global Reanalysis. By J. Hersbach et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

The lack of QBO‐MJO connection in CMIP6 models. By J. Kim et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Observational evidence of moistening the lowermost stratosphere via isentropic mixing across the subtropical jet. By J. Langille et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

A Post‐2013 Drop‐off in Total Ozone at a Third of Global Ozonesonde Stations: ECC Instrument Artifacts? By R.M. Stauffer et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

First validation of Aeolus wind observations by airborne Doppler wind lidar measurements. By B. Witschas et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Impacts of Wind Profile Shear and Curvature on the Parameterized Orographic Gravity Wave Stress in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. By X. Xu et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

 

Discussion papers – open for comment:

Influence of convection on stratospheric water vapor in the North American Monsoon region. By Wandi Yu et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.