Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-773-2026
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-773-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model experiment description paper
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23 Jan 2026
Model experiment description paper |
| 23 Jan 2026
| 23 Jan 2026
Experimental protocol for phase 1 of the APARC QUOCA (QUasibiennial oscillation and Ozone Chemistry interactions in the Atmosphere) working group
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Alison Ming
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Gabriel Chiodo
Institute of Geosciences, Spanish National Research Council (IGEO-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Michael Prather
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Mohamadou Diallo
Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Andreas Chrysanthou
Institute of Geosciences, Spanish National Research Council (IGEO-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Hiroaki Naoe
Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Tsukuba, Japan
Xin Zhou
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Irina Thaler
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dillon Elsbury
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (NOAA CSL), Boulder, CO, USA
Ewa Bednarz
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (NOAA CSL), Boulder, CO, USA
Jonathon S. Wright
Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua, China
Aaron Match
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Shingo Watanabe
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
James Anstey
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Tobias Kerzenmacher
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Stefan Versick
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Marion Marchand
Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Institut Pierre‐Simon Laplace, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/UVSQ, Paris, France
Feng Li
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
James Keeble
Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Data sets
GISS E2-2 Simulation Contribution to the QUasibiennial oscillation and Ozone Chemistry interactions in the Atmosphere (QUOCA) Working Group Experimental Protocol Clara Orbe https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17063937
Short summary
The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is the main source of wind fluctuations in the tropical stratosphere, which can couple to surface climate. However, models do a poor job of simulating the QBO in the lower stratosphere, for reasons that remain unclear. One possibility is that models do not completely represent how ozone influences the QBO-associated wind variations. Here we propose a multi-model framework for assessing how ozone influences the QBO in recent past and future climates.
The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is the main source of wind fluctuations in the tropical...
