SPARC

Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate

A core project of the World Climate Research Programme

• SPARC Implementation Plan (1998)
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• SPARC Report N°.1: SPARC-IOC Assessment of Trends in the Vertical Distribution of Ozone (1998).
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• SPARC Report N°2 : SPARC Assessment of Upper Tropospheric and Stratospheric Water Vapour, WCCRP N° 113, WMO/TD-N° 1043 (December 2000) - Summary
  
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• The GCM-reality intercomparison project for SPARC (GRIPS): scientific issues and initial results, S. Pawson, K. Kodera, K. Hamilton et al., B.A.M.S., 81 (4), April 2000.
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• Stratospheric temperature trends: observations and model simulations, V. Ramaswamy, M.L. Chanin, J. Angell, et al., Rev. Geophys., 39, 2, pp71-122, 2001.
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• The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation, M.Baldwin, L.J. Gray, T.J. Dunkerton et al., Rev. Geophys., 39, 2, pp 179-229, 2001
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• Report on the SPARC Tropopause Workshop, Bad Tölz, Germany,17-21 April 2001, Peter Haynes and Ted Shepherd

• SPARC Report N°3: SPARC Intercomparison of Middle Atmosphere Climatologies, WCCRP N° 116, WMO/TD-N° 1142 (December 2002)
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• Baldwin, M.P., Thompson D.W., Shuckburgh, E., Norton, W., Gillett, N.,Weather from the Stratosphere, Science 301, 317-319, 2003. (To receive a hard copy, please contact the SPARC Office)

• Baldwin, M.P., Stephenson, D.B., Thompson D.W., Dunkerton, T.J., Charlton, A.J., O'Neill, A., Stratospheric memory and skill of extended-range weather forecasts, Science, 301, 636-640, 2003. (To receive a hard copy, please contact the SPARC Office)

• A. Ravishankara, S. Liu, U. Platt, T. Bates, I, Bey, K. Carslaw, M. Chipperfield, A. Douglass, D. Fahey, G. Feingold, S. Fuzzi, A. Gettleman, C. Granier, D. Hauglustine, C. Mari, A. O'Neill, D. Parrish, P. Quinn, W. Randel, K. Rosenlof, T. Shepherd, and P. Simon, Climate Chemistry Interactions, Report from the joint SPARC/IGAC workshop, 3 - 5 April 2003  Giens, France
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• SPARC Report N°4: Assessment of Stratospheric Aerosol Properties (ASAP) WCRP-124, WMO/TD- No. 1295 (February 2006)
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