Understanding and quantifying the global methane (CH 4) budget is important for assessing
realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. Atmospheric emissions and concentrations of …

The quasi‐biennial oscillation (QBO) dominates the variability of the equatorial stratosphere
(∼ 16–50 km) and is easily seen as downward propagating easterly and westerly wind …

Abstract The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has developed the third Japanese global
atmospheric reanalysis, the Japanese Reanalysis for Three Quarters of a Century (JRA-3Q) …

MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications in:
Journal of Climate Volume 24 Issue 14 (2011) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

ERA‐40 is a re‐analysis of meteorological observations from September 1957 to August
2002 produced by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in …

Observations of temperature, winds, and atmospheric trace gases suggest that the transition
from troposphere to stratosphere occurs in a layer, rather than at a sharp “tropopause.” In the …

Methane (CH4) is the most abundant organic trace gas in the atmosphere. In the distant
past, variations in natural sources of methane were responsible for trends in atmospheric …

We have developed a global three‐dimensional chemical transport model called Model of
Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers (MOZART), version 2. This model, which will be made …

The Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers, version 3 (MOZART‐3), which
represents the chemical and physical processes from the troposphere through the lower …

Improvements in our understanding of transport processes in the stratosphere have
progressed hand in hand with advances in understanding of stratospheric dynamics and …