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1 1 The stratosphere is one of the major contributors to sub-seasonal to seasonal predictability of surface climate in winter and spring. Our activity is continuing to lead international efforts to quantify and understand this predictability so that, ultimately, we might improve our models and forecasting systems so they can better exploit it.
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5 5 **Summary of Previous Activities**
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7 7 We have contributed an overview chapter led by Amy Butler to the S2S prediction book “The gap between weather and climate forecasting” on subseasonal predictability and the stratosphere: https:~/~/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128117149000115
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20 20 Our initial analysis of stratospheric predictability and processes in the S2S prediction systems revealed issues with biases in these models that vary as a function of lead-time and initialization time. A community project is ongoing to evaluate stratosphere-troposphere coupling biases in S2S prediction systems, and how these biases may influence predictive skill. We currently have researchers from 11 countries contributing to this analysis (Switzerland, Israel, Spain, United States, Finland, South Korea, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Norway, Argentina). Core questions we seek to answer include:
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24 24 a. What are the lead time dependent mean biases in the stratosphere and in stratosphere-troposphere coupling processes, and how do they compare among models? What about biases in variability?
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26 26 b. Which biases have the greatest impact on predictive skill? How large are the impacts?
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30 30 d. Are biases linked to stratospheric processes/variability? E.g., are biases larger before or after SSWs, vortex intensifications, phases of the QBO, etc?
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30 + These efforts are being led by Zachary Lawrence. The current plan is to submit 1-2 community papers in late summer of 2021. If you would like to join these efforts, please contact the SNAP co-chairs (Amy Butler, NOAA and Chaim Garfinkel, Hebrew University) or Zachary Lawrence.
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34 - These efforts are being led by Zachary Lawrence. The current plan is to submit 1-2 community papers in late summer of 2021. If you would like to join these efforts, please contact the SNAP co-chairs (Amy Butler, NOAA and Chaim Garfinkel, Hebrew University) or Zachary.
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41 41 **Upcoming Activities: experiments for operational centres to perform that isolate the role of the stratosphere on predictive skill**
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37 +Recent studies including our review papers have highlighted that key to understanding stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the extra-tropics and S2S predictability more broadly is a greater understanding how the representation of tropospheric eddy-jet feedbacks contribute to this predictability. Similarly, in the tropics, a focus on the links between the QBO and MJO predictability is very important. With this in mind, our next major project is to plan, coordinate, and analyze an experiment in which the stratosphere is damped towards observed stratospheric events, replicating earlier idealised studies in simpler, low- resolution models which helped to develop more detailed theories for how planetary and synoptic scale eddies contribute to coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere. Peter Hitchcock will be the scientific lead.
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44 -Recent studies including our review papers have highlighted that key to understanding stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the extra-tropics and S2S predictability more broadly is a greater understanding how the representation of tropospheric eddy-jet feedbacks contribute to this predictability. Similarly, in the tropics, a focus on the links between the QBO and MJO predictability is very important. With this in mind, our next major project is to plan, coordinate, and analyze an experiment in which the stratosphere is damped towards observed stratospheric events, replicating earlier idealised studies in simpler, low- resolution models which helped to develop more detailed theories for how planetary and synoptic scale eddies contribute to coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere. Peter Hitchcock will be the scientific lead.Test experiments at ECMWF have been completed.
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46 46 The test cases will be NH SSWs during two recent winters with very different tropospheric impact (2018 and 2019) and the 2019 SH warming, which has likely contributed to the extreme wildfires over Australia in 2019/20. The goals of this project are:
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50 50 a. To assess the contribution of the stratospheric evolution to forecast skill in a controlled fashion.
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56 56 d. To assess the representation of stratospheric wave driving.
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59 -We have already held very fruitful discussions with QBOi about a joint initiative that would explore stratosphere-troposphere coupling in both the extra-tropics and tropics and for both initialised and free-running models using a combined and agreed upon damping framework. This proposal is ambitious and will require significant collaboration with and buy-in from S2S partners. A rough timeline is:
50 +We have already held very fruitful discussions with QBOi about a joint initiative that would explore stratosphere-troposphere coupling in both the extra-tropics and tropics and for both initialised and free-running models using a combined and agreed upon damping framework. This proposal is ambitious and will require significant collaboration with and buy-in from S2S partners. Test experiments at ECMWF have been completed. A rough timeline is:
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61 61 Q1 2021 – submission of paper outlining experimental protocol (with input from modelling centres)
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