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Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate

 
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SPARC Reports
 

SPARC CCMVaL Report

SPARC CCMVal (2010), SPARC Report on the Evaluation of Chemistry-Climate Models, V. Eyring, t. G. Shepherd, D.W. Waugh (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 5, WCRP-132, WMO/TD-No. 1526.


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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SPARC Report N°3
SPARC Intercomparison of Middle Atmosphere Climatologies, WCCRP N° 116, WMO/TD-N° 1142 (December 2002)
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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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SPARC Plans
 

SPARC Science Plan (Initial Review of Objectives and Scientific Issues), WCRP Report N°. 83, WMO/TD-No. 582 (December 1993)
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SPARC Implementation Plan (1998)
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Review Papers
 

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.
(To receive a copy, please contact the SPARC Office)

Stratospheric temperature trends: observations and model simulations, V. Ramaswamy, M.L. Chanin, J. Angell, et al., Rev. Geophys., 39, 2, pp71-122, 2001.
(To receive a copy, please contact the SPARC Office)

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation, M.Baldwin, L.J. Gray, T.J. Dunkerton et al., Rev. Geophys., 39, 2, pp 179-229, 2001
(To receive a copy, please contact the SPARC Office)

Report on the SPARC Tropopause Workshop
, Bad Tölz, Germany,17-21 April 2001, Peter Haynes and Ted Shepherd

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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Last update: September 15, 2010