SPARC Science Update: 3-9 December

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

Adapted ECC ozonesonde for long-duration flights aboard boundary-layer pressurised balloons. By F. Gheusi et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Validation of ACE-FTS version 3.5 NOy species profiles using correlative satellite measurements. By P.E. Sheese et al. in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Multiple subtropical stratospheric intrusions over Reunion Island : observational, lagrangian and eulerian numerical modeling approaches. By H. Vérèmes et al. in the Journal of Geophysical research: Atmospheres.

Tropospheric Transport Differences Between Models Using the Same Large-Scale Meteorological Fields. By C. Orbe et al. in Geophysical Research Letters.

When Stratospheric Ozone Hits Ground-level Regulation – Exceptional Events in Wyoming. By B. Kaldunski et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Stratospheric control of Madden Julian Oscillation. By S.-W. Son et al in the Journal of Climate.

Impact of Atmospheric Blocking on South America in Austral Summer. By R.R. Rodrigues and T. Woollings in the Journal of Climate.

Recent advances in satellite data rescue. By P. Poli et al. in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Characterising tropospheric O3 and CO around Frankfurt over the period 1994–2012 based on MOZAIC–IAGOS aircraft measurements. By H. Petetin et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Interannual variations of early winter Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud formation and nitric acid observed by CALIOP and MLS. By A. Lambert et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Discussion papers – open for comment

Modelling the Inorganic Bromine Partitioning in the Tropical Tropopause over the Pacific Ocean. By M.A. Navarro et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.