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SPARC Mission: to understand and represent the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere and its interactions with the climate system

The WCRP research activity playing the leading role in better understanding the chemistry of the climate system is the Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC). SPARC, founded in the year 1993, concentrates on the interaction of dynamical, radiative and chemical processes. Activities organized by SPARC include the construction of a stratospheric reference climatology and the improvement of understanding of trends in temperature, ozone and water vapour in the stratosphere. Gravity wave processes, their role in stratospheric dynamics and how these may be parameterized in models is another current topic.

Examples of SPARC accomplishments:
> SPARC’s Chemistry-Climate Model Validation (CCMVal) organizes model simulations and analyses that were a central element of the WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion.
> SPARC-related scientists served on the WMO/UNEP Assessment Steering Committee, as lead and contributing authors, and reviewers.
> SPARC comprehensive peer-reviewed reports include: (i) Trends in the Vertical Distribution of Ozone; (ii) Upper Tropospheric and Stratospheric Water Vapour; (iii) Intercomparison of Middle Atmosphere Climatologies; (iv) Stratospheric Aerosol Properties.
> SPARC reports in preparation include: Chemistry-Climate Model Validation and an updated Assessment of Upper Tropospheric and Stratospheric Water Vapour.


SPARC International Project Office
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: sparc@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Web: http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/SPARC/office.html


Scientific Steering Group (as from 1 January 2010)

Co-Chairs:

Professor Thomas Peter
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
E-mail: thomas.peter@env.ethz.ch

Professor Ted Shepherd
University of Toronto, Canada
E-mail: tgs@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca

Members:

Dr Greg Bodeker
NIWA, New Zealand
E-mail: g.bodeker@niwa.co.nz

Dr John Burrows
University of Bremen, Germany
E-mail: burrows@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de

Dr Panuganti C.S. Devara
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India
E-mail: devara@tropmet.res.in

Dr Roseanne Diab
Academy of Science of South Africa
E-mail: diab@ukzn.ac.za

Dr Veronica Eyring
Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany
E-mail: veronika.eyring@dlr.de

Dr David Fahey

NOAA ERL, USA
E-mail: david.w.fahey@noaa.gov

Dr Peter Haynes
University of Cambridge, UK
E-mail: phh@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Dr Elisa Manzini
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Italy
E-mail: manzini@bo.ingv.it

Professor Masato Shiotani
Kyoto University, Japan
E-mail: mshiota@ipc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Dr Anne Thompson

Pennsylvania State University, USA
E-mail: amt16@psu.edu

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