C-SPARC Conference Presentations and Lectures

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

2011

  • 6 September: ECMWF 2011 Seminars, Reading, UK
    • Polavarapu, S., Stratospheric data assimilation
  • 27 June - 8 July: IUGG XXV General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia
    • Mudryk, L.R. and P.J.Kushner, A method to diagnose sources of annular mode time scales
    • Shepherd M., S. Beagley, Y.M. Cho, G. Shepherd, and V. Fomichev, Investigation of Major Stratospheric Warming effects on atmospheric coupling at high latitudes using the extended Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model
  • 13-17 June: AMS 18th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Spokane, WA, USA
    • Shepherd, T.G. and C. McLandress, A robust mechanism for strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson circulation in response to climate change: critical-layer control of subtropical wave breaking
  • 5-9 June: 45th CMOS Congress, Victoria, BC, Canada
    • Erler, A., R. Field, D. Jones and T. Shepherd, An Objective Definition of the Tropopause
    • Reader, C. M., D. Plummer and J. Scinocca, Tropospheric and Stratospheric Ozone Changes in the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (CMAM) with Tropospheric Chemistry
    • Shepherd, T., Large-scale two-dimensional turbulence in the atmosphere? (INVITED)
    • Shepherd, T., The coupled stratosphere-troposphere response to climate change (INVITED)
    • Simpson, I., T. Shepherd and M.Sigmond, Dynamics of the lower stratospheric circulation response to ENSO
    • Smith, K., P. Kushner, J. Cohen and C. Fletcher, Why can't climate models capture the observed connection between seasonal snow cover and the Northern Annular Mode?
  • 9-11 May: 3rd High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere (HEPPA) Workshop, Granada, Spain
    • Semeniuk, K., V. I. Fomichev, J. C. McConnell, C. Fu, S. M. L. Melo, and I. G. Usoskin, Atmospheric response to the solar cycle in irradiance and ionizing particle precipitation (INVITED)
  • 11-12 April: Michael McIntyre 70th Birthday Celebration, University of Cambridge, UK
    • Shepherd, T.G., The Brewer-Dobson circulation (INVITED)
  • 3-8 April: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
    • Mudryk, L.R. and P.J.Kushner, A method to diagnose sources of annular mode time scales
  • 28 February - 4 March: Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Gravity Wave and their effects on General Circulation and Climate, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • Hitchcock, P., Gravity wave-driven descent of the stratopause following sudden warmings
  • 31 January-1 February: Workshop on Tropical Stratosphere-Troposphere: Implications for Indian Monsoon and Climate, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
    • Shepherd, T.G., Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) (INVITED)
    • Shepherd, T.G., Mechanisms of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the subtropics (INVITED)
  • 22-27 January: 91st AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Hitchcock, P., and T. G. Shepherd, Seasonally coherent recoveries from stratospheric sudden warmings
    • Jonsson, A., V. Fomichev and D. Plummer, Multiple linear regression analysis of stratospheric temperature and ozone changes: Assessment of uncertainties in model based attribution
    • McLandress, C., A. Jonsson, D. Plummer, C. Reader, J. Scinocca, M. Sigmond, and T. G. Shepherd, Separating the effects of ozone depletion/recovery and climate change on the dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere and troposphere
    • Simpson, I. R., T. G. Shepherd and M. Sigmond, The response of the tropical lower stratosphere to ENSO

2010

  • ,b>13-17 December: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco. CA, USA
    • Shepherd, T.G., The role of atmospheric dynamics in ozone-climate coupling
  • 3-5 November: DynVar Workshop 2, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    • Sigmond, M. Effects of stratospheric ozone depletion and increasing greenhouse gases on the Southern Ocean and Antarctic sea ice trends
  • 25-29 October: WCRP Workshop on Seasonal to Multi-Decadal Predictability of Polar Climate, Bergen, Norway
    • Kushner, P.J., Stratospheric influence on polar climate
    • Sigmond, M., The ozone hole, the Southern Ocean and Antarctic sea ice trends
    • Shepherd, T.G., Long-memory processes in the stratosphere
  • 25-27 October: Joint ACE/OSIRIS Science Team Meeting, Toronto, Canada
    • Sloan, J. J., C. Sioris and J. Hu, Retrievals of cirrus and PSCs from ACE measurements
    • Sioris, C., J. J. Sloan and J. Hu, Particle size distributions from ACE-FTS and MAESTRO
  • 9-12 August: AGU Meeting of the Americas, Iguazu Falls, Brazil
    • Hegglin, M. I., The extra-tropical UTLS from space-based instruments (INVITED)
    • Hegglin, M. I. and T. G. Shepherd, Climate-induced changes in UV
    • Shepherd, T.G., Climate sensitivity to gravity-wave drag parameterization (INVITED)
    • Shepherd, T.G., Coupling between stratospheric ozone and climate: Latest results from the CMAM
  • 18-25 July: 38th COSPARC Scientific Assembly, Bremen, Germany
    • Melo, S. M. L., K. Semeniuk and V. Fomichev, Model study of the middle atmosphere response to the 11-year variability in solar irradiance and ionizing particle precipitation
  • 11-16 July: IGAC-iCACGP Joint Meeting, Halifax, Canada
    • Cooper, M., R.V. Martin, C. Boone, K. Walker, P. Bernath, C. McLinden, D. Degenstein, B. Sauvage, C. Wespes, Evaluation of satellite retrievals of O3 and HNO3 in the upper troposphere: Application to ozone production efficiency
    • Mitovski, T., Temperature, relative humidity, mass divergence, and ozone response to strong rainfall events in the western tropical Pacific: Observations and models
  • 21-23 June: 8th SPARC data assimilation workshop, Exeter, UK
    • Polavarapu, S., The stratospheric influence on the troposphere in the context of operational medium-range weather forecasts
    • Ren, S., Polavarapu, S. and Rochon, Y., CMAM-DAS and diagnostics of the 2006 Arctic SSW
    • Milewski T. and Bourqui M.S : Ensemble assimilation of stratospheric temperature and ozone observations in a Chemistry-Climate Model
  • 15-18 June: 6th Workshop on Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere
    • Semeniuk, K., V. I. Fomichev, S. M. L. Melo, Role of ionizing particle precipitation in the solar cycle of the middle atmosphere (INVITED)
  • 7-10 June: DASP, CAP Annual Congress, Toronto, Canada
    • Shepherd, T.G., Global-scale teleconnections in the troposphere-stratosphere-mesosphere system (INVITED)
  • 31 May - 4 June: CMOS Congress, Ottawa, Canada
    • Anstey, J., Scinocca, J. F. and Keller, M., Simulation of a realistic QBO in an atmospheric general circulation model
    • Beagley, S., V. Fomichev, L. Megner, K. Semeniuk and J. McConnell, The extended CMAM: Latest developments
    • Beagley, S., et al., Ozone data assimilation with the CMAM-DAS
    • Erler, A. and Wirth, V., The static stability of the tropopause region in baroclinic life-cycle experiments
    • Farahani, E., Strong, K., Shepherd, T. G., Mittermeier, R. and Fast, H., Springtime Arctic measurements of trace gases from 1999 to 2003 at Eureka, Canada Comparisons with results from the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model
    • Hegglin, M. I., Climate-change induced changes in UV radiation and stratospheric ozone fluxes into the troposphere (INVITED)
    • Hegglin, M. I. and S. Gettelman, Simulating the past, present and future of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS)
    • Hegglin, M. I. and the PREMIER MAG, PREMIER
    • Jonsson, A. I., V. Fomichev, D. Plummer, Assessment of multiple linear regression as a tool for attribution of stratospheric temperature and ozone changes
    • Mackenzie, D., D. Jones, M. Hegglin, J. Worden, C. Boone, K. Walker, P. Bernath, C. Carouge, and L. Murray, Characterizing the seasonal variation in position and depth of the mixing layer in the UTLS based on observations from the ACE-FTS and TES satellite instruments
    • McLandress, C., A. I. Jonssson, D. A. Plummer, M. C. Reader, J. F. Scinocca, T. G. Shephered and M. Sigmond, Separating the effects of climate change and ozone depletion on the dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere troposphere and stratosphere
    • Milewski T. and M. S. Bourqui: Ensemble assimilation of stratospheric temperature and ozone observations in a Chemistry-Climate Model
    • Nezlin, Y., Reszka, M., Rochon, Y., Ren, S. and Shepherd, T. G., Observability of equatorial stratospheric winds
    • Plummer, D., Reader, M. C. and Scinocca, J. F., Influence of stratospheric ozone depletion on tropospheric ozone (POSTER)
    • Polavarapu, S., The stratospheric influence on the troposphere in the context of operational medium-range weather forecasts
    • Reader, M. C., Sigmond, M., Fyfe, J. C., Plummer, D. A., Scinocca, J. F. and Shepherd, T. G., The Effect of Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Gas Warming on the Southern Ocean in Coupled Transient Simulations using the CMAM Middle Atmosphere Chemistry Climate Model
    • Ren, S., et al., Middle atmospheric structure of the Arctic 2006 Stratospheric Sudden Warming event
    • Scinocca, J. F., The impact of GWD on climate change (INVITED)
    • Semeniuk., K., V. Fomichev and S. Melo, Middle atmosphere response to the 11-year variability in solar irradiance and ionizing particle precipitation
    • Sigmond, M. The influence of the basic state on the Northern Hemisphere circulation response to climate change
    • Sigmond, M., Fyfe, J. C., Scinocca, J. F. and Reader, M. C., Stratospheric ozone depletion and Southern Ocean atmosphere-ocean coupling
    • Simpson, I. and Shepherd, T. G., The influence of sea surface temperature variability on the Antarctic stratosphere
    • Wang, L. and P. J. Kushner: Diagnosing the stratosphere-troposphere stationary wave response to climate change in chemistry-climate models
  • 27-28 May: Space Science Symposium in honour of the scientific career of Gordon G. Shepherd, York University, Toronto
    • McLandress, C., The scientific achievements of WINDII
    • Shepherd, T.G., The scientific case for SWIFT
  • 2-7 May: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
    • Wang, L. and P. J. Kushner: Diagnosing the stratosphere-troposphere stationary wave response to climate change in chemistry-climate models (POSTER)
    • Mudryk, L.R. and P.J.Kushner, Sources of annular mode time scales. (Poster)

2009

  • 25-26 October: The One Atmosphere: IGAC-SPARC Joint Workshop, Kyoto, Japan
    • Shepherd, T. G., The role of stratospheric dynamics in chemistry-climate coupling (INVITED)
  • 19-22 October: Community Workshop on the Extra-Tropical UTLS, Boulder, USA
    • Hegglin, M. I. and A. Gettleman, CCMVal Overview: The extra-tropical UTLS in chemistry-climate models (INVITED)
    • Hegglin, M. I., First global view on the extratropical tropopause transition layer from the ACE-FTS
    • MacKenzie, D., D. Jones, M. Hegglin, J. Worden, C. Boone, K. Walker and P. Bernath, Characterizing the seasonal variation in position an depth of the mixing layer in the UTLS based on observations from the ACE-FTS and TES satellite instruments
  • 19-29 July: IAMAS/IAPSO/IACS/IAGA Joint meeting (MOCA-09), Montreal, Canada
    • Anstey, J. A., T. G. Shepherd and J. F. Scinocca, QBO-vortex interaction in an AGCM with a spontaneously forced QBO
    • Batchelor, R.,, K. Strong, Lindenmaier, R. Manson, C. Meek. S. Polavarapu, M. Reszka, G. Manney, W. Daffer, and NDACC IRWG Arctic station teams, Characterizing the spring-time Arctic stratosphere during IPY
    • Beagley, S. R., C. Boone, V. I. Fomichev, K. Semeniuk, J. J. Jin, and J. C. McConnell, Carbon dioxide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere: Comparing ACE observations and the extended CMAM
    • Folkins, I., Representation of the TTL in a new convective parameterization (INVITED)
    • Grishin, I., T. Kuhn, K. Kwiecien and J. J. Sloan, Effects of ice cloud particle shapes on radiative transfer
    • Hegglin, M. I. and T. G. Shepherd, Climate-induced changes in UTLS ozone and their impacts on the troposphere
    • Hegglin, M. I., C. D. Boone, G. L. Manney and K. A. Walker, A global view on the extratropical tropopause transition layer from the ACE-FTS
    • Jonsson A. I. and V. I. Fomichev, Attribution of global mean temperature trends in the middle atmosphere: Analysis of the radiative budget
    • Keller, M., S. Ren, C. McLandress, D. Pendlebury, S. Polavarapu and T. G. Shepherd, The impact of mesospheric observations on the 2-day wave in a Middle Atmosphere Data Assimilation System (POSTER)
    • Körnich, H., B. Karlsson, C. McLandress, T. G. Shepherd, et al., Inter-hemispheric coupling inferred from models and measurements of polar mesospheric clouds
    • Kushner, P. J. and D. I. Vyushin: Power-law behaviour in the atmospheric general circulation
    • Lucini, M., T. G. Shepherd, S. Polavarapu and N. McFarlane, Towards a multi-analysis ensemble
    • Manney, G. L., K. Krueger, M. J. Schwartz, S. Pawson, N. J. Livesay, S. Polavarapu, M. G. Mlynczak, E. E. Remsberg, J. M. Russell III, Studies of stratopause structure, evolution and transport from satellite data and new assimilation products
    • McLandress, C. and T. G. Shepherd, Simulated anthropogenic changes in the Brewer Dobson circulation, including its extension to high latitudes
    • McLandress, C. and T. G. Shepherd, Assessing the impact of climate change on stratospheric sudden warmings
    • Milewski, T. and Bourqui M.S : Testing stratospheric chemical-dynamical ensemble Kalman filtering (POSTER)
    • Monge-Sanz, B., M. Chipperfield, D. Dee, A. Simmons, S. Uppala, S. Ren, S. Polavarapu and T. G. Shepherd, Stratospheric transport in a CTM using DAS and GCM winds: Identifying effects
    • Nezlin, Y., S. Ren, Y.J. Rochon, S. Polavarapu, Impact of SABER Temperature Observations on Mesospheric Prediction
    • Nezlin, Y., Y.J. Rochon, M. Reszka and S. Polavarapu, New Applications of Observing System Simulation Experiments
    • Plummer, D. A., J. F. Scinocca, T. G. Shepherd, S. R. Beagley and K. Semeniuk, Untangling the dynamical and chemical effects on the evolution of stratospheric ozone through the 21st century
    • Polavarapu, S., Data assimilation for climate applications (INVITED)
    • Polavarapu, S., Recent advances in stratospheric and mesospheric data assimilation (INVITED)
    • Pulido, M., S. Polavarapu, T. Shepherd and J. Thuburn, Parameter estimation for gravity wave schemes using a genetic algorithm
    • Semeniuk, K., V. I. Fomichev, and S. M. L. Melo, Solar variability studies using the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model
    • Semeniuk, K., V. Fomichev, C. Fu, and S. M. L. Mello, Impact of ionizing particle precipitation on the middle atmosphere (INVITED)
    • Shaw, T. A. and T. G. Shepherd, The impact of conservation of momentum in gravity wave drag parameterization on planetary wave structure and variability
    • Shepherd, T. G., The role of dynamics in middle atmosphere modelling (INVITED)
    • Shepherd, T. G., P. E. Huck and G. E. Bodeker, How much was ozone affected by ozone-depleting substances over Antarctica before 1980?
    • Shepherd, T. G., S. Tegtmeier and V. E. Fioletov, Seasonal persistence of stratospheric ozone anomalies
    • Sigmond, M., Stratosheric influence on tropospheric climate change (INVITED)
    • Wang, L. and P. J. Kushner, Modeling the coupled stratosphere-troposphere stationary wave response to climate change (POSTER)
    • Wang, L. and P. J. Kushner, Stationary nonlinearity and stationary wave reflection near the critical layer (POSTER)
  • 8-12 June: AMS 15th Middle Atmosphere and 17th Oceans and Fluids Conference, Stowe, Vermont, USA
    • Anstey, J. A., Influence of the QBO on the winter stratosphere as internal atmospheric variability
    • Hegglin, M. I. and T. G. Shepherd, Trends in stratospheric ozone fluxes into the troposphere in a changing climate
    • Hitchcock, P., T. G. Shepherd, and S. Yoden, Newtonian Cooling in the Middle Atmosphere
    • McLandress, C. and T. G. Shepherd, Simulated anthropogenic changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation, including its extension to high latitudes
    • Shaw, T. A. and T. G. Shepherd, The impact of conservation of momentum in gravity wave drag parameterization on planetary wave structure and variability
    • Sigmond, M., and J. F. Scinocca: What determines the Northern Hemisphere response to increasing greenhouse gases?
    • Smith, K., Influence of the climatological stationary wave field in climate-cryosphere interactions (POSTER)
    • Wang, L., and P. Kushner, Modelling the Coupled Stratosphere-Troposphere Stationary Wave Response to Climate Change (POSTER)
  • 1-5 June: CCMVal Workshop, Toronto, Canada
    • Austin, J. and J. Scinocca, Overview and Discussion: Ozone projections
    • Gettelman, A. and M. I. Hegglin, Overview and Discussion: UTLS
    • Hitchcock, P., T. G. Shepherd, and C. McLandress, Are the Coldest Arctic Winters getting colder? (POSTER)
    • Jonsson, A. I., V. I. Fomichev, and T. G. Shepherd, Attribution of stratospheric ozone and temperature changes to changes in ozone-depleting substances and "well-mixed" greenhouse gases
    • Fomichev V. and Forster P., Overview and Discussion: Radiation
    • McLandress, C. and T. G. Shepherd, Impact of climate change on stratospheric sudden warmings as simulated by the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model
    • Wang, L. and P. Kushner, Building a Stratosphere-Troposphere Stationary Wave Model (POSTER)
  • 31 May - 4 June: 43th Annual CMOS Congress, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • Bacak, A., R. Damoah and J. J. Sloan, Long range atmospheric transport of aerosols: First ARCTIC measurements using Quadrupole Aerosol Mass Spectrometer
    • Beagley, S. R., C. D. Boone, V. I. Fomichev, J. J. Jin, K. Semeniuk, J. C. McConnell, P. F. Bernath, and K. A. Walker, First global observations of groundstate CO2 in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere by ACE-FTS and analysis using CMAM model
    • Damoah, R., A. Bacak, T. Kuhn and J. J. Sloan, Forecasting intercontinental transport of pollution into the Canadian High Arctic using Lagrangian particle dispersion modelling
    • Folkins, I., A Convective Parameterization with Trimodal Convective Outflow
    • Jin, J., K. Semeniuk, S. Beagley, V. Fomichev, A. Jonsson, J. McConnell, J. Urban, D. Murtagh, G. Manney, C. Boone, P. Bernath, and ACE and SMR Team, Comparison of CMAM simulations of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methan (CH4) with observations from ODIN/SMR, ACE-FTS, and Aura/MLS
    • Smith, K., Influence of the climatological stationary wave field in climate-cryosphere interactions
  • 24-27 May: AGU Joint Assembly - Meeting of the Americas, Toronto, Canada
    • Beagley, S. R., C. D. Boone, V. I. Fomichev, J. J. Jin, K. Semeniuk, J. C. McConnell, and P. F. Bernath, First global observations of groundstate CO2 in the MLT by ACE and analysis using CMAM model results (POSTER)
    • Folkins, I., A one-dimensional cloud model with trimodal convective outflow
    • Jonsson, A. I. and V. I. Fomichev, Attribution of global mean temperature trends in the middle atmosphere: Model diagnostics
    • Shepherd, T. G., Mechanisms of chemistry-climate coupling (INVITED)
    • Shepherd, T. G., Global-scale teleconnections in the Earth's middle atmosphere (INVITED)
    • Sigmond, M., and J. F. Scinocca: Influence of the Stratosphere on the NAM response to increasing greenhouse gases
    • Wang, L. and P. Kushner, Modelilng the Coupled Stratosphere-Troposphere Stationary Wave Response to Climate Change (POSTER)
  • 20 May: 8th Workshop on adjoint applications in dynamic meterology, Tannersville, Pennsylvania, US
    • Polavarapu, S., Y. Nezlin, S. Ren, Y. Rochon and S. Beagley, Vertical propagation of information in data assimilation systems
  • 7-10 April: The 4th GEOS-Chem Scientific and User's Meeting
    • MacKenzie, D., Seasonal Variations in the Mixing Layer in the UTLS
  • 17-19 March: SPARC Water Vapour Workshop, Toronto, Canada
    • M. I. Hegglin, Needs of the Chemistry-Climate Modelling community regarding H2O measurements
  • 26 February: IPY Cryosphere Snow Working Group Workshop, Toronto, Canada
    • Kushner, P. J., Overview
    • Smith, K., The transient atmospheric response to an idealized snow forcing in a relatively simple GCM

2008

  • 15-18 December: American Geophysical Union meeting, San Fransisco, USA
    • Rochon, Y. J., M. Keller, Y. Nezlin, R. Ménard, Y. Yang, C.S. Haley, and T.G. Shepherd, The Impact of Stratospheric Wind and Ozone Observations on Analyses and Forecasts: OSSE Description and Initial Results
  • 10-13 November: WWRP-THORPEX workshop on 4D-Var/EnsKF intercomparisons, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Polavarapu, S., Balance and 4D-Var (INVITED)
  • 3-5 November: ACE Workshop, Waterloo, Ontario
    • Hegglin, M., C. Boone, G. Manney, T. Shepherd, K. Walker, and P. Bernath, ACE-FTS observations in the upper tropospere/lower stratosphere and their use for chemistry-climate model validation
  • 24-25 October: Plumbfest, Columbia University, USA
    • Shepherd, T. G., Stratospheric Modelling (INVITED)
  • 15-17 October: CEOS Workshop on Atmospheric Composition Data Sets and Climate Modelling, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
    • Hegglin, M., C. Boone, G. Manney, T. Shepherd, K. Walker, and P. Bernath, Validation of chemistry-climate models in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere usig solar occulation observations from the ACE-FTS
    • Shepherd, T., SPARC overview and data needs
    • Tegtmeier, S., V. Fioletov and T. Shepherd, Dealing with missing data in the NH stratosphere
  • 9-13 September: 5th IAGA/ICMA/CAWSES Workshop on Long-Term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere
    • Fomichev, V. I. and A. I. Jonsson, Understanding middle atmosphere temperature trends in terms of radiative energy budget changes (INVITED)
  • 31 August - 5 September: 4th SPARC General Assembly, Bologna, Italy
    • Birner, T., The Tropopause Inversion Layer (INVITED)
    • Birner, T. and P. D. Williams, Sudden Stratospheric Warmings as Noise-Induced Transitions (Poster)
    • Farahani E., S. Polavarapu, T. G. Shepherd, and N. McFarlane, The Structure and Evolution of the Polar Stratosphere and Mesosphere during IPY - Early Results from SPARC-IPY (Poster)
    • Fletcher C., S. C. Hardiman, P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen, Stratospheric Influence on the Extratropical Circulation Response to Surface Forcing in High-Top and Low-Top Models (Poster)
    • Hardiman S. C., P. Kushner and J. Cohen, The Effects of Eurasian Snow Cover in General Circulation Models (Poster)
    • Hegglin, M., Toward A Global View of Extratropical UTLS Tracer Distributions (INVITED)
    • Hitchcock, P., T. G. Shepherd and C. McLandress, Conditions for Polar Stratospheric Cloud formation in the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (Poster)
    • Huck, P. E., G. E. Bodeker, H. Struthers, D. Smale, E. Rozanov, and T. G. Shepherd, Quantifying key sensitivities in the interaction between climate change and Antarctic ozone depletion in observations and CCMs (Poster)
    • Jonsson, A. I. and V. I. Fomichev, On the radiative forcing of global-mean temperature trends in the middle atmosphere (Poster)
    • Kushner P., Stratospheric Control of Tropospheric Annular Mode Responses to Climate Change (INVITED)
    • McLandress, C. and T. G. Shepherd, Diagnosing the Causes of the Climate-Change Induced Strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation
    • Nezlin Y., Y. Rochon, and S. Polavarapu, Impact of Tropospheric and Stratospheric Data Assimilation on the Mesospheric Prediction (Poster)
    • Pendlebury, D., T. G. Shepherd, M. Pritchard, and C. McLandress, Normal Mode Rossby Waves and Their Effects on Chemical Composition in the Late Summer Stratosphere (Poster)
    • Plummer, D. A., J. Scinocca, T.G. Shepherd, S. R. Beagley, and K. Semeniuk, CMAM Projections of the Dynamical and Chemical Effects on Ozone through the 21st Century (Poster)
    • Polavarapu S., Recent Advances in Stratospheric Data Assimilation (INVITED)
    • Pulido M., S. Polavarapu, T. G. Shepherd, and J. Thuburn, Determining Optimal Parameters for Gravity Wave Drag Schemes Using Data Assimilation Techniques: Twin Experiments (Poster)
    • Ren, S., S. Polavarapu, and T. G. Shepherd, The Constraint of Data Assimilation in the Stratosphere and Troposphere on Mesospheric Motions (Poster)
    • Scinocca, J. F., C. Reader, D. Plummer, M. Sigmond, P. Kushner, T. G. Shepherd, and A. R. Ravishankara, The Sensitivity of Polar Ozone Recovery to Catastrophic Sea-Ice Loss In The Northern Hemisphere
    • Shaw, T., M. Sigmond, T. G. Shepherd, and J. F. Scinocca, Spurious Sensitivity of a General Circulation Model to Model Lid Height due to Nonconservation of Angular Momentum (Poster)
    • Sigmond, M., J. F. Scinocca and P. J. Kushner, The Impact of the Stratosphere on Tropospheric Climate Change. (Poster)
    • Sigmond, M. and J. F. Scinocca, The Sensitivity of Modeled Climate Change to Orographic Gravity Wave Drag. (Poster)
    • Tegtmeier, S., V. E. Fioletov, and T. G. Shepherd, Seasonal Persistence of Northern Low and Middle Latitude Anomalies of Ozone and Other Trace Gases in the Stratosphere (Poster)
    • Wang, L. and P. Kushner, Stationary Wave Response to Climate Change (Poster)
    • Winter, B. and M. Bourqui, Stratospheric Response to Latitudinally Varied Surface Warming (Poster)
  • 29 June - 5 July: Quadrennial Ozone Symposium, Tromso, Norway
    • Hegglin, M., C. Boone, G. Manney, T. Shepherd, K. Walker, P. Bernath, W. Daffer, P. Hoor, and C. Schiller, Validation of ACE-FTS zone in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere using nn-coindident measurements
    • Tegtmeier, S., V. Fioletov, and T. Shepherd, Seasonal persistence of anomalies of ozone and other trace gases in the NH stratosphere
  • 1-6 June: CAWSES International Workshop on Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment, International Workshop, Bozeman, Montana, USA
    • Semeniuk, K., C. Fu, V. I. Fomichev, I. G. Usoskin, J. C. McConnell, and S. M. L. Melo, The Effect of Galactic Cosmic Rays on the Middle Atmosphere: a study using the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model
  • 28-31 May: 1st International HEPPA Workshop, FMI, Helsinki, Finland
    • Lopez-Peurtas, M., B. Funke, M. Garcia-Comas, N. Glattthor, G. P. Stiller, T. Von Clarmann, K. Semeniuk, and J. C. McConnell, N2O and CO changes in the polar stratosphere/mesosphere during the October-November 2003 solar proton events as observed by MIPAS
  • 26-29 May: CMOS Annual Congress, Kelowna, BC
    • Shepherd, T. G., Advances in middle atmosphere modelling (INVITED)
  • 13-18 April: European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
    • Jin, J. J. , K. Semeniuk, S. R. Beagley, A. I. Jonsson, J. C. McConnell, J. Urban, D. Murtagh, B. Barret, E. Dupuy, C. D. Boone, SMR and ACE team, Comparison of CMAM simulations of CO, N2O, and CH4 with observations from Odin/SMR, ACE-FTS, and AURA MLS (POSTER)
    • Nezlin, Y. and Y. Rochon, On the use of simulations with a perfect model in the error analysis of data assimilation systems
  • 26-28 March: Joint SPARC Gravity Wave and DynVar planning workshop, Toronto, Canada
    • McLandress, C., Parameterized orographic gravity wave drag and its role in climate change (INVITED)
    • Polavarapu, S., S. Ren, Y. Nezlin, Y. Rochon, M. Pulido, T.G. Shepherd, Gravity waves in data assimilation (INVITED)
    • M. Sigmond, M., J. F. Scinocca and P. J. Kushner, The impact of the stratosphere on tropospheric climate change (INVITED)
  • February: EC Snow Workshop, Environment Canada Downsview, Toronto, Canada
    • Fletcher, C. G., S.C. Hardiman, P.J. Kushner, A. Hall, X. Qu and J. Cohen, Snow-Atmosphere Interaction in General Circulation Models: Summary of current projects
  • 5-8 February: NASA/NOAA Working Group on Space-based Lidar Winds, Monterey, USA
    • Shepherd, T. G., The scientific value of stratospheric wind measurements (INVITED)

2007

  • 10-14 December: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
    • Beagley, S. R., J. C. McConnell, V.I. Fomichev, K. Semeniuk, A. I. Jonsson, A. Garcia Munoz, C. McLandress and T.G. Shepherd, Extended CMAM: Impacts of thermospheric neutral and ion chemistry on the middle atmosphere
    • Semeniuk, K., J. C. McConnell, P. F. Bernath, J.-J. Jin, C. Fu, J. Jaroz, N2O production during high energy auroral precipitation (POSTER)
    • Semeniuk K., C. Fu, V. I. Fomichev, J. C. McConnell, and S. M. L. Melo, The Middle Atmosphere and Energetic particle precipitation - response in the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (POSTER)
    • Jin, J. J., K. Semeniuk, S. R. Beagley, A. I. Jonsson, J. C. McConnell, J. Urban, D. Murtagh, B. Barret, E. Dupuy, C. D. Boone, P. F. Bernath, K. A. Walker, Comparison of CMAM simulations of carbon monoxide (CO), Nitrous Oxygen (N2O), and methane (CH4) with observations from Odin/SMR, ACE-FTS, and AURA MLS (POSTER)
  • November: ACE Workshop, Waterloo, Canada
    • Hegglin, M. I., An Update on the Validation of the ACE-FTS in the UTLS
  • 12-16 November: European Mars Science and Exploration Conference, ESTEC, Netherlands
    • Daerden, F., N. Mateshvili, A.,Akingunola, J. C. McConnell, J.W. Kaminski, A Comparison of bulk water ice clouds in GM3 with measurements of ice clouds from SPICAM
  • 5-9 November: Reunion Island International Symposium on Tropical Stratosphere/Upper Troposphere, Reunion Island
    • Shepherd, T. G., Transport and mixing in the tropical stratosphere and upper troposphere (INVITED)
  • 24-28 September: AGU Chapman Conference on The Role of the Stratosphere in Climate and Climate Change, Santorini, Greece
    • Birner, T., Sudden Stratospheric Sudden Stratospheric Warmings as Noise-Induced Transitions (POSTER)
    • Birner, T., Stratospheric Residual Circulation and Tropopause Structure (INVITED)
    • Fletcher, C. G., P.J. Kushner and J. Cohen: Can the stratosphere control the extratropical circulation response to surface forcing?
    • Cohen, J. and P.J. Kushner, Stratosphere-troposphere interactions forced by snow variability (POSTER)
    • Kushner, P. J. et al., Modelling Stratospheric Influence on the Troposphere: the SPARC DynVar Project (INVITED)
    • Shepherd, T. G., How will climate change affect ozone recovery?
    • Sigmond, M., J. F. Scinocca and P. J. Kushner, The Effect of Removing a Well-Resolved Stratosphere on the Simulation of the Tropospheric Climate, and Climate Change
  • 16 September: Montreal Protocol 20th Anniversary Meeting, Montreal, Canada
    • Shepherd, T. G., Key findings from the 2006 Scientific Assessment, and a look at what lies ahead (INVITED)
  • September: German-Austrian-Swiss Meteorology Conference, Hamburg, Germany
    • Birner, T., Sudden Stratospheric Sudden Stratospheric Warmings as Noise-Induced Transitions
    • Birner, T., Heat budget of the extratropical tropopause region (INVITED)
  • 18-21 September: SPARC SSG meeting, Bremen, Germany
    • Birner, T., Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL): SPARC/GEWEX-GCSS/IGAC Links (INVITED)
  • 4-7 September: Joint SPARC Workshop on Data Assimilation and International Polar Year, Toronto, Canada
    • Chabrillat, S., Y. J. Rochon, R. Ménard, Y. Yang, A. Robichaud, C. Charette, 3D-FGAT assimilation of MIPAS-IMK and GOMOS chemical data
    • Hegglin, M. I., The benefits of in-line advection: Assessing the transport characteristics of the CMAM-DAS
    • McLandress, C., An overview of the dynamics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (INVITED)
    • Nezlin, Y. and Y. Rochon, A study of the CMAM-DAS using simulated observations
    • Polavarapu, S., SPARC Science and Data Assimilation
    • Polavarapu, S., The Canadian IPY effort
    • Ren S., S. Polavarapu, T. G. Shepherd, The constraint of data assimilation in the stratosphere and troposphere on mesospheric motions
  • 20-24 August, 10th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Beijing, China
    • Vyushin, D., and P.J. Kushner, Fitting a power law model for low frequencies of ERA40 air temperature spectra
  • 30 July - 3 August: PIMS w/s on Tropical multiscale convective systems: Theory, modeling, and observations, Victoria, Canada
    • Birner, T., Heat Budget of the Tropical Tropopause Layer
  • 20-24 August: American Meteorological Society Middle Atmosphere Meeting, Portland, USA
    • Anstey, J. A., T. G. Shepherd and J. F. Scinocca, QBO variability and its effect on the extratropical circulation
    • Birner, T., Coupling of Residual Circulation and Static Stability in the Lowermost Stratosphere
    • Hegglin, M. I., The Extratropical Tropopause Transition Layer (ExTL) as seen from ACE
    • Kushner, P. J., Regional signatures of the annular modes from the stratosphere to the ocean
    • McLandress, C., The importance of small-scale gravity waves in the middle atmosphere: a modeller's perspective (INVITED)
    • Sigmond, M., P. J. Kushner and J. F. Scinocca, Discriminating between robust and non-robust atmospheric circulation responses to global warming (INVITED)
  • 2-13 July: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 24th General Assembly, Perugia, Italy
    • Fomichev, V. I. and A. I. Jonsson, Past and future trends in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere from the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (INVITED)
    • Hegglin, M. I., O3-N2O correlations: Revisiting a diagnostic of transport and chemistry in the stratosphere
    • Hegglin, M. I., Validating ACE-FTS in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS)
    • Polavarapu, S., S. Ren, D. Sankey, Y. Rochon, Y. Nezlin, S. Beagley, T. Shepherd, Mechanisms for coupling the lower and middle atmosphere in data assimilation system (INVITED)
    • Polavarapu, S., S. Ren, Y. Rochon, D. Sankey, Y. Nezlin, S. Beagley, T. Shepherd, The sensitivity of mesosphere to the lower atmosphere in data assimilation systems (INVITED)
    • Semeniuk, K., C. Fu, V. I. Fomichev, J. C. McConnell and S. M. L. Melo, Simulations of the Effect of Ionizing Particle Precipitation on the Middle Atmosphere
    • Shepherd, T. G., Current challenges in middle atmosphere science (INVITED)
  • 26-28 June: CCMVal Workshop, Leeds, UK.
    • Birner, T., Variability and trends in global tropopause parameters
    • Hegglin, M., O3-N2O correlations: Revisiting a diagnostic of transport and chemistry in the stratosphere
    • Jonsson, A. I., and V. I. Fomichev, Transient simulations of climate changes in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere
    • Kushner, P. J., A Dynamics and Variability Initiative for SPARC (INVITED)
    • Plummer, D. A., T. Shepherd, S. R. Beagley, K. Semeniuk and V. Fomichev, The CMAM transient simulations for CCMVal: Analysis of long-term changes in ozone
    • Tegtmeier, S., Persistence and photochemical decay of springtime total ozone anomalies in CCMs
  • 17-20 June: Division of Aeronomy and Space Physics (DASP) CAP Annual Congress, Saskatoon, Canada
    • Bourqui, M., Extra-tropical stratosphere-troposphere exchange and dynamical structures at the tropopause
    • Hegglin, M., Validation of Chemistry Climate Models in the UTLS using ACE satellite data
    • Shepherd, T. G., The role of the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere in the climate system (INVITED)
  • 14-16 May: ACE Science meeting, Waterloo, Canada.
    • Hegglin, M., Validation of Chemistry Climate Models in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) using ACE satellite data
    • Jin, J., K. Semeniuk, S. R. Beagley, A. I. Jonsson, J. C. McConnell, G. L. Manney, K. A. Walker, C. D. Boone, P. F. Bernath, Analysis of the Antarctic ozone loss and related chemical processes 
  • 28 May - 1 June: CMOS-CGU-AMS Congress 2007, St John's, Canada.
    • Jonsson, A. I., T. G. Shepherd, and V. I. Fomichev, Detection and attribution of the effects of climate change and ozone depletion in the stratosphere
  • 22-25 May: Spring AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico.
    • Fomichev V. I. and A. I. Jonsson, Middle atmosphere climate changes from transient runs with the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (Invited)
  • 4-13 March: CLIVAR C20C Workshop, Exeter, UK.
    • Kushner, P., A Dynamics and Variability Initiative for SPARC: Connections to the C20C Project. (Invited) 
  • 1-2 February: CSA suborbital workshop.
    • Hegglin, M., The dream of a Canadian high-altitude research aircraft…

2006

  • 10-15 December: AGU Fall Meeting
    • Kushner, P., Stratosphere-troposphere Interactions Forced by Variations in Snow Extent
    • Kushner, P., Discriminating Robust and Non-robust Atmospheric Circulation Responses to Climate Change
    • Folkins, I., The Role of the Deep Outflow Layer in the Tropical Water Vapor Budget
  • November: ACE Science meeting, Waterloo, Canada.
    • Hegglin, M., Tracer-tracer correlations from ACE: Exploring transport and chemistry in the stratosphere and in the CMAM
  • 15-17 November: Multidecadal to Centennial Global Climate Variability, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
    • Vyushin, D. I., Workshop on Multidecadal to Centennial Global Climate Variability,. (2 posters)
  • 24-25 October: CNES, Paris, France.
    • Melo, S. et al., The Canadian participation at the PICARD mission, oral presentation to the PICARD Science team Meeting
  • 9-12 October: SPARC SSG Workshop, Boulder, CO, USA
    • Kushner, P., A Dynamics and Variability Initiative for SPARC. (Invited)
  • 4-6 October: SOLARIS Workshop, Boulder CO, USA.
    • Fomichev V.I., Development of the extended CMAM for solar variability study
  • 2-4 October: SPARC Data Assimilation Workshop, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
    • Nezlin Y., Y. Rochon, S. Ren and S. Polavarapu: Ensemble estimation of stationary background error covariances in CMAM-DAS. 
    • Polavarapu, S., D. Sankey, S. Ren, Y. Rochon, Y. Nezlin, S. Beagley and T. G. Shepherd: Nonlocal responses of the middle atmosphere to data insertion
    • Shepherd, T. G., On the use of CCMVal diagnostics for validating DA products
  • 26-28 September: ESA ADM-Aeolus Workshop; ESTEC (European Space research and Technology Centre), Noordwijk, The Netherlands,
    • Shepherd, T. G., Transport in the lower stratosphere:  Science issues and research needs, ADM-Aeolus (Invited) 
  • 17-23 September: International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa.
    • Plummer, D. A., S. R. Beagley, J. deGrandpre and J. C. McConnell, Simulation of the chemical climate of the troposphere in the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model, (poster)
  • 16-23 July:  36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China.
    • Fomichev V. I. and C. McLandress, Amplification of the mesospheric diurnal tide in response to CO2 doubling
  • 26-30 June: NCAR Gravity Waves Retreat, Boulder, CO, USA.
    • Shepherd, T. G., Can we trust the simulated gravity-wave response to climate change? (Invited)
  • 12-15 June: SPARC-GEWEX/GCSS-IGAC Workshop, Victoria, Canada.
    • Folkins, I., Modelling Deep Convection and its Role in the Tropical Tropopause Layer
  • 23-26 May: Spring 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, USA.
    • Folkins, I., Water Vapor Budget of the Tropical Tropopause Layer, for the session "Role of Atmospheric Water Vapor for Climate and Atmospheric Composition"
    • Shepherd, T. G., Chemistry-climate modelling of the stratosphere: A current perspective