SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project

S-RIP Report Structure, Chapter Leads, and Contributors (July 2021)

SPARC (2022), SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) Final Report ,edited by Masatomo Fujiwara, Gloria L. Manney, Lesley J. Gray, and Jonathon S. Wright, SPARC Report No. 10, WCRP-6/2021, doi: 10.17874/800dee57d13, available at https://www.sparc-climate.org/sparc-report-no-10/.

Chapter 1: Introduction [See Fujiwara et al., ACP, 2017]
Lead: Masatomo Fujiwara, Gloria Manney, Lesley Gray
Contributors: Jonathon S. Wright, James Anstey, Thomas Birner, Sean Davis, Edwin P. Gerber, V. Lynn Harvey, Michaela I. Hegglin, Cameron R. Homeyer, John A. Knox, Kirstin Krüger, Alyn Lambert, Craig S. Long, Patrick Martineau, Beatriz M. Monge-Sanz, Susann Tegtmeier, Simon Chabrillat, David G. H. Tan, David R. Jackson, Saroja Polavarapu, Gilbert P. Compo, Rossana Dragani, Wesley Ebisuzaki, Yayoi Harada, Chiaki Kobayashi, Krzysztof Wargan, Jeffrey S. Whitaker

Chapter 2: Description of the Reanalysis Systems [See Extended version Chapter 2E (see here if you would like to check older versions); see also Fujiwara et al., ACP, 2017]
Leads: Jonathon Wright, Masatomo Fujiwara, Craig Long
Contributors: James Anstey, Simon Chabrillat, Gilbert P. Compo, Rossana Dragani, Wesley Ebisuzaki, Yayoi Harada, Chiaki Kobayashi, Will McCarty, Andrea Molod, Kazutoshi Onogi, Steven Pawson, Adrian Simmons, David G. H. Tan, Susann Tegtmeier, Krzysztof Wargan, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, Cheng-Zhi Zou

Chapter 3: Overview of Temperature and Winds [See Long et al., ACP, 2017]
Leads: Craig Long, Masatomo Fujiwara
Contributors: Sean Davis, Daniel Mitchell, Corwin Wright

Chapter 4: Overview of Ozone and Water Vapour [See Davis et al., ACP, 2017]
Leads: Sean Davis, Michaela Hegglin
Contributors: Rossana Dragani, Masatomo Fujiwara, Yayoi Harada, Chiaki Kobayashi, Craig Long, Gloria L. Manney, Eric R. Nash, Gerald L. Potter, Susann Tegtmeier, Tao Wang, Krzysztof Wargan, Jonathon S. Wright

Chapter 5: Brewer–Dobson Circulation
Leads: Beatriz Monge-Sanz, Thomas Birner
Contributors: Simon Chabrillat, Mohamadou Diallo, Florian Haenel, Paul Konopka, Bernard Legras, Felix Ploeger, Thomas Reddmann, Gabriele Stiller, Jonathon S. Wright, Marta Abalos, Harald Boenisch, Sean Davis, Hella Garny, Peter Hitchcock, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Kota Okamoto, Howard Roscoe, Kaoru Sato, Meng Chu Tao, Darryn Waugh

Chapter 6: Extratropical Stratosphere–Troposphere Coupling
Leads: Edwin Gerber, Patrick Martineau
Contributors: Blanca Ayarzagüena, David Barriopedro, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Amy H. Butler, Natalia Calvo, Steven C. Hardiman, Peter Hitchcock, Maddalen Iza, Ulrike Langematz, Hua Lu, Gareth Marshall, Andrew Orr, Froila M. Palmeiro, Seok-Woo Son, Masakazu Taguchi

Chapter 7: Extratropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Leads: Cameron R. Homeyer, Gloria L. Manney
Contributors: Luis F. Millán, Alexander C. Boothe, Tao Xian, Mark A. Olsen, Michael J. Schwartz, Michaela I. Hegglin, Zachary D. Lawrence, Krzysztof Wargan

Chapter 8: Tropical Tropopause Layer
Leads: Susann Tegtmeier, Kirstin Krüger
Contributors: Thomas Birner, Nicholas A. Davis, Sean Davis, Masatomo Fujiwara, Cameron R. Homeyer, Ioana Ivanciu, Young-Ha Kim, Bernard Legras, Gloria L. Manney, Eriko Nishimoto, Matthias Nützel, Robin Pilch Kedzierski, James S. Wang, Tao Wang, Jonathon S. Wright

Chapter 9: Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Leads: James Anstey, Lesley Gray
Contributors: Masatomo Fujiwara, Ioana Ivanciu, Yoshio Kawatani, George Kiladis, Young-Ha Kim, Patrick Martineau, Verena Schenzinger, Susann Tegtmeier, Corwin Wright

Chapter 10: Polar Processes
Leads: Michelle Santee, Alyn Lambert, Gloria Manney
Contributors: Zachary D. Lawrence, Simon Chabrillat, Lars Hoffmann, Sean P. Palmer, Ken Minschwaner

Chapter 11: Upper Stratosphere and Lower Mesosphere
Leads: V. Lynn Harvey, John Knox
Contributors: Jeff France, Masatomo Fujiwara, Lesley Gray, Toshihiko Hirooka, Peter Hitchcock, Matt Hitchman, Yoshio Kawatani, Gloria L. Manney, John McCormack, Yvan Orsolini, Takatoshi Sakazaki, Yoshihiro Tomikawa

Chapter 12: Synthesis Summary
Lead: Masatomo Fujiwara, Gloria Manney, Lesley Gray
Contributors: All chapter leads, working group members, and reanalysis centre contacts