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

 

Coordinated Upper-Troposphere-to-Stratosphere Balloon Experiment in Biak. By F. Hasebe et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Climate–carbon cycle uncertainties and the Paris Agreement. By P.B. Holden et al in Nature Climate Change.

New Version of Popular Climate Model Released. By L. Joel in Earth and Space Science News.

Atmospheric blocking and upper‐level Rossby wave forecast skill dependence on model configuration. By O. Martínez‐Alvarado et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal meteorological Society.

Ozone sensitivity of tropical upper‐troposphere and stratosphere temperature in the MetOffice Unified Model. By J. Oh et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal meteorological Society.

Descent Rate Models of the Synchronization of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by the Annual Cycle in Tropical Upwelling. By K. Rajendran et al. in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Open Access “Grand Challenges” in Big Data and the Earth Sciences. By S.L. Sellars in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

 

Discussion papers open for comment:

Zonal-mean data set of global atmospheric reanalyses on pressure levels. By P. Martineau et al. in Earth System Science Data.