Welcome!
This is the home page for the SPARC Tropopause Initiative. Please
browse the site through the drop down menus above. For more
information about the initiative, please contact Juan Antonio Añel (j.anhel at uvigo.es) or Andrew Gettelman
(andrew at ucar.edu)
Initiative Goal
The Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) project
has, since its inception, tried to stimulate research into the
dynamics, transport and chemistry in the Upper Troposphere/Lower
Stratosphere (UTLS) region. One success has been the
organization
of several multidisciplinary workshops on this topic, starting with the
influential Cambridge workshop in 1993 that resulted in the seminal
review by Holton et al. in 1995. Given the present SPARC
emphases
of dynamical coupling, detection and attribution, and chemistry-climate
modeling, it is appropriate now to examine what SPARC activities to
promote the science of the UTLS might be most useful. This
site
is designed to stimulate and assist discussion about what
directions might be most useful, and encourage interested scientists to
join that discussion.
SPARC
