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Science 18 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5631, pp. 317 - 319
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085688
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Perspectives
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Weather from the Stratosphere?
Mark P. Baldwin, David W. J. Thompson, Emily F. Shuckburgh, Warwick A. Norton, Nathan P. Gillett
Unlike the turbulent troposphere, the stratosphere--the atmospheric layer from 10 to 50 km--has long been believed not to play a substantial role in determining weather and climate at Earth's surface. Reporting from a workshop in Whistler, British Columbia, Baldwin et al. discuss recent evidence to the contrary in their Perspective. Observational and modeling evidence increasingly points to a stratosphere that is an active player in the climate and weather of this planet. Better knowledge of the underlying mechanisms may, for example, be helpful in weather prediction and in elucidating the climatic effects of greenhouse gas increases and stratospheric ozone depletion.
M. P. Baldwin is at NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA 98007, USA. E-mail: mark{at}nwra.com D. W. J. Thompson is in the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. E-mail: davet{at}atmos.colostate.edu E. F. Shuckburgh is in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. E-mail: e.f.shuckburgh{at}damtp.cam.ac.uk W. A. Norton is in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK. E-mail: wan{at}atm.ox.ac.uk N. P. Gillett is in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada. E-mail: gillett{at}uvic.ca
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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
- Simulation of Recent Southern Hemisphere Climate Change.
- N. P. Gillett and D. W. J. Thompson (2003)
Science
302, 273-275
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