• Abrupt Change in the Lower Thermospheric Mean Meridional Circulation During Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Its Impact on Trace Species 

      Orsolini, Yvan J.; Zhang, Jiarong; Limpasuvan, Varavut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Based on the hourly output from the 2000–2014 simulations of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's vertically extended version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model in specified dynamics configuration, ...
    • Alpine Ice‐Core Evidence of a Large Increase in Vanadium and Molybdenum Pollution in Western Europe During the 20th Century 

      Arienzo, Monica M.; Legrand, Michel; Preunkert, Susanne; Stohl, Andreas; Chellman, Nathan J; Eckhardt, Sabine; Gleason, Kelly E.; McConnell, Joseph R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Pollutants emitted by industrial processes are deposited across the landscape. Ice core records from mid-latitude glaciers located close to emission sources document the history of local-to-regional pollution since ...
    • Climatological Westward‐Propagating Semidiurnal Tides and Their Composite Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in SuperDARN and SD‐WACCM‐X 

      Zhang, Z.; Limpasuvan, Varavut; Orsolini, Yvan J.; Espy, Patrick Joseph; Hibbins, Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Using the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network observations (clustered around 60°N) and NCAR CESM2.0 extended Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model nudged with reanalyzes, we examine the climatology of semidiurnal tides in ...
    • Eastward-Propagating Planetary Waves Prior to the January 2009 Sudden Stratospheric Warming 

      Rhodes, Christian Todd; Limpasuvan, Varavut; Orsolini, Yvan J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Eastward-propagating planetary waves (EPWs) were investigated prior to the boreal January 2009 major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event simulated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Whole Atmosphere ...
    • Emissions of Tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and Hexafluoroethane (C2F6) From East Asia: 2008 to 2019 

      Kim, Jooil; Thompson, Rona Louise; Park, Hyeri; Bogle, Stephanie; Mühle, Jens; Park, Mi-Kyung; Kim, Yeaseul; Harth, Christina M.; Salameh, Peter K.; Schmidt, Roland; Ottinger, Deborah; Park, Sunyoung; Weiss, Ray F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The perfluorocarbons (PFCs), tetrafluoromethane (CF4) and hexafluoroethane (C2F6), are potent greenhouse gases with very long atmospheric lifetimes. They are emitted almost entirely from industrial sources, including the ...
    • Growing Atmospheric Emissions of Sulfuryl Fluoride 

      Gressent, Alicia; Rigby, Matthew; Ganesan, Anita L.; Prinn, Ronald G.; Manning, Alistair J.; Mühle, Jens; Salameh, Peter K.; Krummel, Paul; Fraser, Paul J.; Steele, Paul; Mitrevski, Blagoj; Weiss, Ray F.; Harth, Christina M.; Wang, Ray H.; O'Doherty, S.; Young, Dickon; Park, Sunyoung; Li, S.; Yao, Bo; Reimann, Stefan; Vollmer, Martin K.; Maione, Michela; Arduini, Jgor; Lunder, Chris Rene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The potent greenhouse gas sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2) is increasingly used as a fumigant, replacing methyl bromide, whose structural and soil fumigation uses have been phased out under the Montreal Protocol. We use measurements ...
    • How Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport Drive Surface Variability of N2O and CFC-11 

      Ruiz, Daniel J.; Prather, Michael J.; Strahan, Susan E.; Thompson, Rona Louise; Froidevaux, Lucien; Steenrod, Stephen D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a long-lived greenhouse gas that affects atmospheric chemistry and climate. In this work, we use satellite measurements of N2O, ozone (O3), and temperature from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) ...
    • Impact of Snow Initialization in Subseasonal‐to‐Seasonal Winter Forecasts With the Norwegian Climate Prediction Model 

      Li, Fei; Orsolini, Yvan; Keenlyside, Noel; Shen, Mao-Lin; Counillon, Francois; Wang, Yiguo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Snow initialization has been previously investigated as a potential source of predictability atthe subseasonal‐to‐seasonal (S2S) timescale in winter and spring, through its local radiative,thermodynamical, and hydrological ...
    • A Precipitation Isotopic Response in 2014–2015 to Moisture Transport Changes in the Central Himalayas 

      Axelsson, Josefine; Gao, Jing; Eckhardt, Sabine; Cassiani, Massimo; Cheng, Deliang; Zhang, Qiong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The impact of moisture transport and sources on precipitation stable isotopes (δ18O and d-excess) in the central Himalayas are crucial to understanding the climatic archives. However, this is still unclear due to the lack ...
    • Seasonal Variation of Wet Deposition of Black Carbon at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard 

      Mori, Tatsuhiro; Kondo, Yutaka; Ohata, Sho; Goto-Azuma, Kumiko; Fukuda, Kaori; Ogawa-Tsukagawa, Yoshimi; Moteki, Nobuhiro; Yoshida, Atsushi; Koike, Makoto; Sinha, P. R.; Oshima, Naga; Matsui, Hitoshi; Tobo, Yutaka; Yabuki, Masanori; Aas, Wenche (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Black carbon (BC) aerosol deposited in and onto Arctic snow increases the snow's absorption of solar radiation and accelerates snowmelt. Concentrations of BC in the Arctic atmosphere and snow are controlled by wet deposition; ...
    • A Synthesis Inversion to Constrain Global Emissions of Two Very Short Lived Chlorocarbons: Dichloromethane, and Perchloroethylene 

      Claxton, Tom; Hossaini, R.; Wilson, C.; Montzka, Stephen A.; Chipperfield, Martyn P.; Wild, Oliver; Bednarz, Ewa M.; Carpenter, Lucy J.; Andrews, Stephen J.; Hackenberg, Sina C.; Mühle, Jens; Oram, David; Park, Sunyoung; Park, Mi-Kyung; Atlas, Elliot; Navarro, Maria; Schauffler, Sue; Sherry, David; Vollmer, Martin K.; Schuck, Tanja; Engel, Andreas; Krummel, Paul B.; Maione, Michela; Arduini, Jgor; Saito, Takuya; Yokouchi, Yoko; O'Doherty, Simon; Young, Dickon; Lunder, Chris Rene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Dichloromethane (CH2Cl2) and perchloroethylene (C2Cl4) are chlorinated very short lived substances (Cl‐VSLS) with anthropogenic sources. Recent studies highlight the increasing influence of such compounds, particularly ...
    • An Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Depletion Event During Spring 2020 and Its Impacts Across Europe 

      Petkov, Boyan H.; Vitale, Vito; Di Carlo, Piero; Drofa, Oxana; Mastrangelo, Daniele; Smedley, Andrew R.D.; Diemoz, Henri; Siani, Anna-Maria; Fountoulakis, Ilias; Webb, Ann R; Bais, Alkiviadis; Kift, Richard; Rimmer, John; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Svendby, Tove Marit; Pazmino, Andrea; Werner, Rolf; Atanassov, Atanas M.; Láska, Kamil; De Backer, Hugo; Mangold, Alexander; Köhler, Ulf; Velazco, Voltaire A.; Stübi, René; Solomatnikova, Anna; Pavlova, Kseniya; Sobolewski, Piotr S.; Johnsen, Bjørn; Goutail, Florence; Misaga, Oliver; Aruffo, Eleonora; Metelka, Ladislav; Tóth, Zoltán; Fekete, Dénes; Aculinin, Alexandr A.; Lupi, Angelo; Mazzola, Mauro; Zardi, Federico (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The response of the ozone column across Europe to the extreme 2020 Arctic ozone depletion was examined by analyzing ground-based observations at 38 European stations. The ozone decrease at the northernmost site, Ny-Ålesund ...