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

 

Modeling evidence of QBO‐MJO connection: A case study. By S.-Y. Back, J.-Y. Han, and S.-W. Son in the Geophysical Research Letters.

On the intermittency of orographic gravity wave hotspots and its importance for middle atmosphere dynamics. By A. Kuchar et al. In Weather and Climate Dynamics.

Confinement of air in the Asian monsoon anticyclone and pathways of convective air to the stratosphere during the summer season. By B. Legras and S. Bucci in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Reappraisal of the climate impacts of ozone‐depleting substances. By O. Morgenstern et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Broadening Impact of Field Campaigns: Integrating Meteorological and Chemical Observations. By G.L. Mullendore et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

On the linkage between Rossby wave phase speed, atmospheric blocking and Arctic Amplification. By J. Riboldi et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Tropospheric forcing of the 2019 Antarctic sudden stratospheric warming. By X. Shen, L. Wang, and S. osprey in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Prediction of the quasi‐biennial oscillation with a multi‐model ensemble of QBO‐resolving models. By T.N. Stockdale et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Near complete local reduction of Arctic stratospheric ozone by severe chemical loss in spring 2020. By I. Wohltmann et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Climate research Foote note. By B. Wake in nature: climate change.

 

Discussion papers – open for comment:

Global Carbon Budget 2020. By P. Friedlingstein et al. In Earth System Science Data.

Location controls the findings of ground-based PSC observations. By M. Tesche, P. Achtert, and M.C. Pitts in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

The Impact of Increasing Stratospheric Radiative Damping on the QBO Period. By T. Zhou et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.