Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and impacts on the surface

CSL uses observations and models to investigate the coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere

Langford, A. O., Pierce, R. B., and Schultz, P. J.:  Stratospheric intrusions, the Santa Ana winds, and wildland fires in Southern California , Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 6091-6097, 10.1002/2015gl064964, 2015b.

Langford, A. O., Alvarez II, R. J., Brioude, J., Fine, R., Gustin, M. S., Lin, M. Y., Marchbanks, R. D., Pierce, R. B., Sandberg, S. P., Senff, C. J., Weickmann, A. M., and Williams, E. J. (2017),  Entrainment of stratospheric air and Asian pollution by the convective boundary layer in the southwestern U.S. , J. Geophys. Res., 122(2), 1312-1337, doi:10.1002/2016JD025987.

Langford, A. O., Alvarez II, R. J., Brioude, J., Fine, R., Gustin, M. S., Lin, M. Y., Marchbanks, R. D., Pierce, R. B., Sandberg, S. P., Senff, C. J., Weickmann, A. M., and Williams, E. J. (2017),  Entrainment of stratospheric air and Asian pollution by the convective boundary layer in the southwestern U.S. , J. Geophys. Res., 122(2), 1312-1337, doi:10.1002/2016JD025987.

Langford, A. O., Alvarez II, R. J., Kirgis, G., Senff, C. J., Caputi, D., Conley, S. A., Faloona, I. C., Iraci, L. T., Marrero, J. E., McNamara, M. E., Ryoo, J. M., and Yates, E. L.:  Intercomparison of lidar, aircraft, and surface ozone measurements in the San Joaquin Valley during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS) , Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 1889-1904, 10.5194/amt-12-1889-2019, 2019.

Langford, A. O., and Senff, C. J.:  Lidar profiling of ozone above the central San Joaquin Valley during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS) , Final Report Contract No. 15RD012 California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, 96, 2019.

Langford, A. O., Alvarez II, R. J., Brioude, J., Caputi, D., Conley, S. A., Evan, S., Faloona, I. C., Iraci, L. T., Kirgis, G., Marrero, J. E., Ryoo, J. M., Senff, C. J., and Yates, E. L.:  Ozone Production in the Soberanes Smoke Haze: Implications for Air Quality in the San Joaquin Valley During the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study , J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 125, ARTN e2019JD031777, 10.1029/2019JD031777, 2020.

Lawrence, Z., J. Perlwitz, A.H. Butler, G. Manney, P. Newman, S. Lee, and E. Nash,  The remarkably strong Arctic stratospheric polar vortex of winter 2020: Ties to record-breaking Arctic oscillation and ozone loss , Journal of Geophysical Research, 125(22), doi:10.1029/2020JD033271, 2020.

Lee, S.H., Z.D. Lawrence, A.H. Butler, and A.Y. Karpechko,  Seasonal forecasts of the exceptional northern hemisphere winter of 2020 , Geophysical Research Letters, 47(21), doi:10.1029/2020GL090328, 2020.

Lickley, M., Solomon, S., Fletcher, S., Velders, G. J. M., Daniel, J., Rigby, M., Montzka, S. A., Kuijpers, L. J. M., and Stone, K.,  Quantifying contributions of chlorofluorocarbon banks to emissions and impacts on the ozone layer and climate , Nature Communications, 11, 10.1038/s41467-020-15162-7, 2020.

Lim, E.-P., H. H. Hendon, A.H. Butler, D.W.J. Thompson, Z. Lawrence, A.A. Scaife, T.G. Shepherd, I. Polichtchouk, H. Nakamura, C. Kobayashi, R. Comer, L. Coy, A. Dowdy, R.D. Garreaud, P.A. Newman, and G. Wang, The 2019 Southern Hemisphere polar stratospheric warming and its impacts, submitted to BAMS, 2021.

Lin, M. Y., Fiore, A. M., Cooper, O. R., Horowitz, L. W., Langford, A. O., Levy, H., Johnson, B. J., Naik, V., Oltmans, S. J., and Senff, C. J.:  Springtime high surface ozone events over the western United States: Quantifying the role of stratospheric intrusions , J. Geophys. Res., 117, D00v22, 10.1029/2012jd018151, 2012.

Mariotti, A., C. Baggett, E.A. Barnes, E. Becker, A.H. Butler, D.C. Collins, P.A. Dirmeyer, L. Ferranti, N.C. Johnson, J. Jones, B.P. Kirtman, A.L. Lang, A. Molod, M. Newman, A.W. Robertson, S. Schubert, D.E. Waliser, and J. Albers,  Windows of opportunity for skillful forecasts subseasonal to seasonal and beyond , Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101, E608-E625, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0326.1, 2020.

Martin, Z., A. Sobel, A.H. Butler, S. Wang,  Variability in QBO temperature anomalies on annual and decadal timescales , J. Climate, 34 (2), 589-605, 2020.

Merryfield, W.J., J. Baehr, L. Batté, E.J. Becker, A.H. Butler, C.A.S. Coelho, G. Danabasoglu, P.A. Dirmeyer, F.J. Doblas-Reyes, D.I.V. Domeisen, L. Ferranti, T. Ilynia, A. Kumar, W.A. Müller, M. Rixen, A.W. Robertson, D.M. Smith, Y. Takaya, M. Tuma, F. Vitart, C.J. White, M.S. Alvarez, C. Ardilouze, H. Attard, C. Baggett, M.A. Balmaseda, A.F. Beraki, P.S. Bhattacharjee,R. Bilbao, F.M. de Andrade, M.J. DeFlorio, L.B. Díaz, M.A. Ehsan, G. Fragkoulidis, S. Grainger, B.W. Green, M.C. Hell, J.M. Infanti, K. Isensee, T. Kataoka, B.P. Kirtman, N.P. Klingaman, J.-Y. Lee, K. Mayer, R. McKay, J.V. Mecking, D.E. Miller, N. Neddermann, C.H.J. Ng, A. Ossó, K. Pankatz, S. Peatman, K. Pegion, J. Perlwitz, G.C. Recalde-Coronel, A. Reintges, C. Renkl, B. Solaraju-Murali, A. Spring, C. Stan, Y.Q. Sun, C.R. Tozer, N. Vigaud, S. Woolnough, and S. Yeager,  Current and emerging developments in subseasonal to decadal prediction , Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(6), E869–E896, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0037.1, 2020.

Montzka, S. A., G. S. Dutton, D. Mondeel, C. Siso, P. Yu, E. A. Ray, R. Portmann, J. S. Daniel, L. Kuijpers, B. D. Hall, D. Nance, M. Rigby, A. Manning, L. Hu, F. Moore, B. R. Miller and J. W. Elkins,  An unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11 , Nature, 557, 10.1038/s41586-018-0106-2, 2018.

Montzka, S. A., G. S. Dutton, R. Portmann, M. P. Chipperfield, S. Davis, W. Feng, A. Manning, E. A. Ray, M. Rigby, B. D. Hall, C. Siso, D. Nance, P. B. Krummel, J. Muhle, D. Young, S. O'Doherty, P. K. Salameh, C. Harth, R. G. Prinn, R. F. Weiss, J. W. Elkins, H. Walter-Terrenoni, and C. Theodoridi, A sharp decline in global CFC-11 emissions during 2018-2019, Nature, accepted, 2021.

Newman, P., E.R. Nash, N. Kramarova, and A.H. Butler, Sidebar 6.1:  The 2019 southern stratospheric warming  [in "State of the Climate in 2019”], Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(8), S297-S298, doi:10.1175/2020BAMSStateoftheClimate.1, 2020.

Polvani, L.M., L. Sun, A.H. Butler, J.H. Richter, and C. Deser,  Stratospheric sudden warmings overwhelm ENSO as drivers of wintertime climate variability over the North Atlantic and Eurasia , Journal of Climate, 30, 1959-1969, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0277.1, 2017.

Ray, E. A., R. W. Portmann, P. Yu, J. Daniel, S. A. Montzka, G. S. Dutton, B. D. Hall, F. L. Moore and K. H. Rosenlof,  The stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation influence on trace gases at the Earth’s surface,  Nature Geosci., 10.1038/s41561-019-0507-3, 2019.

Rigby, M., Park, S., Saito, T., Western, L. M., Redington, A. L., Fang, X., Henne, S., Manning, A. J., Prinn, R. G., Dutton, G. S., Fraser, P. J., Ganesan, A. L., Hall, B. D., Harth, C. M., Kim, J., Kim, K.-R., Krummel, P. B., Lee, T., Li, S., Liang, Q., Lunt, M. F., Montzka, S. A., Muhle, J., O'Doherty, S., Park, M.-K., Reimann, S., Salameh, P. K., Simmonds, P., Tunnicliffe, R. L., Weiss, R. F., Yokouchi, Y. and Young, D., Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations, Nature, 569, 10.1038/s41586-019-1193-4, 2019.

Scaife, A.A., A.-Y. Karpechko, M.P. Baldwin, A. Brookshaw, A.H. Butler, R. Eade, M. Gordon, C. MachLachlan, N. Martin, N.Dunstone, and D. Smith,  Seasonal winter forecasts and the stratosphere , Atmospheric Science Letters, 17(1), 51-56, doi:10.1002/asl.598, 2016.

Skerlak, B., Sprenger, M., and Wernli, H.: A global climatology of stratosphere-troposphere exchange using the ERA-Interim data set from 1979 to 2011, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 913-937, 10.5194/Acp-14-913-2014, 2014.

Thorncroft, C. D., Hoskins, B. J., and McIntyre, M. E.: Two paradigms of baroclinic-wave life-cycle behaviour, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 119, 17-55, 1993.

Zhang, L., Lin, M. Y., Langford, A. O., Horowitz, L. W., Senff, C. J., Klovenski, E., Wang, Y. X., Alvarez II, R. J., Petropavlovskikh, I., Cullis, P., Sterling, C. W., Peischl, J., Ryerson, T. B., Brown, S. S., Decker, Z. C. J., Kirgis, G., and Conley, S.:  Characterizing sources of high surface ozone events in the southwestern US with intensive field measurements and two global models , Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 10379-10400, 10.5194/acp-20-10379-2020, 2020.